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PREFATORY. 


READER  :  As  an  amateur  botanist,  I  have  pen- 
etrated some  avenues  of  the  vast  garden  of  lit- 
erature, and  I  have  gathered  flowers  of  different 
species  to  compose  a  bouquet  which  I  offer  to  you. 

Occasionally,  I  have  allowed  myself  to  insert 
some  of  my  own  thoughts  among  those  of  the  great 
thinkers  here  represented,  as  one  shelters  timid 
violets  by  planting  them  at  the  foot  of  majestic 
oaks. 

In  compiling  this  book,  I  have  carefully  ex- 
cluded everything  that  would  seem  objectionable 
to  you,  my  liberal  but  virtuous  reader,  the  Eng- 
lish language  being  more  austere  than  the  French 
in  its  expressions ;  but,  after  having  paid  a  legiti- 
mate tribute  to  your  just  susceptibilities,  I  have, 
without  timorous  scruples,  preserved  such  piquant 
gems  as  could  be  enjoyed  without  endangering 
your  morals. 


In  an  orderly  spirit,  for  which  posterity,  if  not 
the  present  generation,  will  give  me  thanks,  1  have 
mixed  the  serious  with  the  jocular ;  for  I  feared 
that,  if  I  placed  the  wisdom  at  the  beginning  and 
the  wickedness  at  the  end  of  the  book,  you  would 
begin  your  reading  retrogressively,  which  is  con- 
trary to  established  principles.  At  the  worst,  this 
subterfuge  is  not  more  criminal  than  that  of  the 
physician  who  coats  his  bitter  pills  with  sugar. 

rThe  thinker,  the  skeptic,  the  misanthrope,  the 
sentimentalist,  the  melancholic,  and  the  mirthful 
will  find  in  these  pages  ample  food  for  their  differ- 
ent appetites.  Democritus  elbows  Heraclitus  all 
the  way  long;  and  I  have  no  doubt  that,  after 
having  perused  meditatively  these  deep  or  fanci- 
ful lucubrations  of  eminent  authors,  you  will  have 
greatly  improved  your  natural_disposition.  \ 

A  final  word  to  the  lady  reader :  You  will  see, 
fair  reader,  that  much  good  has  been  said  of  you, 
and,  alas!  much  bad  also;  this  is  because  no 
subject  more  worthy  of  attention  has  ever  haunted 
the  minds  of  all  the  great  philosophers  of  the  world. 
But  listen  to  this  well-meant  injunction :  believe 
unhesitatingly  all  that  is  said  in  your  favor,  and 
deny  energetically,  as  I  myself  do,  all  that  is  said 


to  your  prejudice.  Do  not  criminate  an  innocent 
compiler,  who  would  not  exchange  one  of  your 
smiles  for  all  the  wisdom  of  Solomon,  and  who  has 
inserted  in  his  book  the  malicious  remarks  of  cer- 
tain ill-natured  philosophers,  only  to  show  how  far 
man's  ingratitude  can  go. 

DE  FINOD. 


INTKODUCTOKY. 


To  select  well  among  old  things  is  almost 
equal  to  inventing  new  ones. 

Trublet. 

The  flavor  of  detached  thoughts  depends  upon 
the  conciseness  of  their  expression :  for  thoughts 
are  grains  of  sugar,  or  of  salt,  that  must  be  melted 
in  a  drop  of  water. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

When  we  say  there  is  nothing  new  under  the 
sun,  we  do  not  count  forgotten  things. 

E.  Thierry. 

A  burlesque  word  is  often  a  mighty  sermon. 

Boileau. 

He  who   hears   but   one  bell,  hears   but  one 

sound. 

Proverb. 


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What  seems  only  ludicrous  is  sometimes  very 
serious. 

Rabelais. 

Better  a  man  with  paradoxes  than  a  man  with 
prejudices. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

We  must  laugh  before  we  are  happy,  lest  we 
should  die  without  having  laughed. 

La  Eruyere. 

The  history  of  love  would  be  the  history 
of  humanity:  it  would  be  a  beautiful  book  to 
write. 

Ch.  Nodier. 

Strong  thoughts  are  iron  nails  driven  in  the 

mind,  that  nothing  can  draw  out. 

Diderot. 

In   this   world,   one   must   put   cloaks  on   all 

truths,  even  the  nicest. 

Balzac. 

Fear  of  hypocrites  and  fools  is  the  great  plague 
of  thinking  and  writing. 

y.  yanin. 

Women  prefer  us  to  say  a  little  evil  of  them, 
rather  than  say  nothing  of  them  at  all. 

A.  Ricard. 


All  truths  are  not  to  be  uttered ;   still  it  is 
always  good  to  hear  them. 

Mme.  du  Deffand, 

Wisdom  is  to  the  soul  what  health  is  to  the 
body. 

De  Saint-Rtal. 

Thought  is  the  first  faculty  of  man  :  to  express 
it  is  one  of  his   first    desires;   to  spread  it,  his 

dearest  privilege. 

Raynal. 

One  of  the  principal  occupations  of  men  is  to 

divine  women. 

Lacretelle. 

Love  is  composed  of  so  many  sensations,  that 
something  new  of  it  can  always  be  said. 

Saint-Prosper. 

A  truth  that  one  does  not  understand  becomes 
an  error. 

Desbarolles. 

Can  one  better  expiate  his  sins  than  by  enlist- 
ing his  experience  in  the  service  of  morals. 

De  Bernard. 

A  delicate  thought  is  a  flower  of  the  mind. 

Rollin. 


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Men  may  say  of  marriage  and  women  what 
they  please :  they  will  renounce  neither  the  one 
nor  the  other. 


The  history  of  the  thoughts  of  men,  curious  on 
account  of  their  infinite  variety,  is  also  sometimes 
instructive. 

Fontenelle. 

Men  say  of  women  what  pleases  them ;  women 
do  with  men  what  pleases  them. 

De  Stgur. 


Verity  is  nudity. 

A.  de  Musset. 


A  jest  that  makes  a  virtuous  woman  only  smile, 
often  frightens  away  a  prude ;  but,  when  real  dan- 
ger forces  the  former  to  flee,  the  latter  does  not 
hesitate  to  advance. 

Latina. 

To  laugh  is  the  characteristic  of  man. 

Rabelais. 

Although  it  is  dangerous  to  have  too  much 
knowledge  of  certain  subjects,  it  is  still  more  dan- 
gerous to  be  totally  ignorant  of  them. 

Colombat. 


II 


There  will  always  remain  something  to  be  said 
of  woman,  as  long  as  there  is  one  on  the  earth. 

Bcufflers. 

When  one  writes  of  woman,  he  must  reserve 
the  right  to  laugh  at  his  ideas  of  the  day  before. 

A.  Ricard. 

O  Truth !  pure  and  sacred  virgin,  when  wilt 
thou  be  worthily  revered  ?  O  Goddess  who  in- 
structs us,  why  didst  thou  put  thy  palace  in  a 
well  ?  When  will  our  learned  writers,  alike  free 
from  bitterness  and  from  flattery,  faithfully  teach 

us  life? 

Voltaire. 

Should  we  condemn  ourselves  to  ignorance  to 

preserve  hope  ? 

E.  Souvestre. 

Ignorance  is  the  mother  of  all  evils. 

Montaigne. 

All  my  misfortunes   come   of  having  thought 

too  well  of  my  fellows. 

f.  J.  Rousseau. 

We  laugh  but  little  in  our  days,  but  are  we  less 
frivolous  ? 

Biranger. 


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Common  sense  is  not  a  common  thing. 

Valatncourt, 

Our  century  is  a  brutal  thinker. 

Biranger. 

The  most  completely  lost  of  all  days  is  the  one 
on  which  we  have  not  laughed. 

Chamfort. 

The  most  completely  lost  of  all  days  is  the  one 
on  which  we  have  not  thought. 

De  Fined. 


Melancholy  is  the  convalescence  of  sorrow. 

Mme.  Dufresnoy. 

Of  all  heavy  bodies,  the  heaviest  is  the  woman 
we  have  ceased  to  love. 

Lemontey. 

Pleasures  are  like  liqueurs :  they  must  be  drunk 
but  in  small  glasses. 

Romainville. 


Of  what  is  man  certain?  What  lasts?  What 
passes?  What  is  chimerical  ?  What  is  real?.  .  . 
Every  body  drags  its  shadow,  and  every  mind  its 
doubt. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Discretion  is  more  necessary  to  women  than 
eloquence,  because  they  have  less  trouble  to  speak 

well  than  to  speak  little. 

Father  Du  Base. 


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Twenty  years  in  the  life  of  a  man  is  sometimes 
a  severe  lesson. 

Mme.  de  Stall. 

Envy  lurks  at  the  bottom  of  the  human  heart 

like  a  viper  in  its  hole. 

Balzac. 

Marriage  is  a  lottery  in  which  men  stake  their 
liberty,  and  women  their  happiness. 

Mme.  de  Rieux. 

Young  saint,  old  devil ;  young  devil,  old  saint. 

Proverb. 

The  heart  has  no  wrinkles. 

Mme.  de  Sevigne". 

Experience  is  the  name  men  give  to  their  fol- 
lies, or  their  sorrows. 

A.  de  Musset. 

Women  are  constantly  the  dupes,  or  the  vic- 
tims, of  their  extreme  sensitiveness. 

Balzac. 

Oblivion  is  the  flower  that  grows  best  on  graves. 

George  Sand. 

In  life,  as  in  a  promenade,  woman  must  lean 
on  a  man  above  her. 

A.  Karr. 


For  one  Orpheus  who  went  to  Hell  to 'seek  his 
wife,  how  many  widowers  who  would  not  even  go 
to  Paradise  to  find  theirs ! 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

When  a  lover  gives,  he  demands — and  much 
moie  than  he  has  given. 

Parny. 

In  most  men  there  is  a  dead  poet  whom  the 
man  survives. 

Sainte-Beuve. 

Woman  is  a  perfected  devil. 

Victor  Hugo. 

How  many  people  would  be  mute  if  they  were 
forbidden  to  speak  well  of  themselves,  and  evil  of 
others ! 

Mme.  de  Fontaines. 

Coquettes  are  the  quacks  of  love. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

To  remain  virtuous,  a  man  has  only  to  combat 
his  own  desires :  a  woman  must  resist  her  own  in- 
clinations, and  the  continual  attack  of  man. 

Latena. 

We  condemn  vice  and  extol  virtue  only  through 
interest. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


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The  less  one  sees  and  knows  men,  the  higher 
one  esteems  them ;  for  experience  teaches  their 
real  value. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Beauty  without  grace  is  a  hook  without  a  bait. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

The  destiny  of  nations  depends  upon  the  man- 
ner in  which  they  feed  themselves. 

Brillat-Savarin. 

Experience  is  a  keen  knife  that  hurts,  while  it 
extracts  the  cataract  that  blinds. 

De  Finod. 

He  who  is  never  guilty  of  follies  is  not  so 
wise  as  he  imagines. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Contempt  is  like  the  hot  iron  that  brands  crim- 
inals :  its  imprint  is  almost  always  indelible. 

Altbert. 

Antiquity  is  the  aristocracy  of  History. 

A.  Dumas  pere. 

A  hydra  advances  which  will  soon  devour  all 
the  men  of  sentiment :  this  hydra  is  the  cipher. 

O.  Firmez, 


17 

Folly  was  condemned  to  serve  as  a  guide  to 
Love  whom  she  had  blinded. 

La  Fontaine, 

The  future  of  society  is  in  the  hands  of  the 
mothers.  If  the  world  was  lost  through  woman, 

she  alone  can  save  it. 

De  Beaufort. 

What  we  gain  by  experience  is  not  worth  what 
we  lose  in  illusion. 

Petit-Senn. 

The  breaking  of  a  heart  leaves  no  traces. 

George  Sand. 

Rejected  lovers  need  never  despair!  There 
are  four  and  twenty  hours  in  a  day,  and  not  a  mo- 
ment in  the  twenty-four  in  which  a  woman  may 
not  change  her  mind. 

De  Finod. 

There  are  few  husbands  whom  the  wife  can 
not  win  in  the  long  run  by  patience  and  love,  un- 
less they  are  harder  than  the  rocks  which  the  soft 
water  penetrates  in  time. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

From  the  moment  it  is  touched,  the  heart  can 
not  dry  up. 

Bourdaloue. 


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Prejudice  is  the  reason  of  fools. 


Voltaire. 


The  best  government  is  not  that  which  ren- 
ders men  the  happiest,  but  that  which  renders  the 
greatest  number  happy. 

Ch.  P.  Duclos. 

Hypocrisy  of  manners,  a  vice  peculiar  to  mod- 
ern nations,  has  contributed  more  than  one  thinks 
to  destroy  that  energy  of  character  which  distin- 
guished the  nations  of  antiquity. 

Condorcet. 

Celebrity  sells  dearly  what  we  think  she  gives, 

E.  Souvestre. 

The  world  either  breaks  or  hardens  the  heart. 

Chamfort. 

Old  age  is  the  night  of  life,  as  night  is  the  old 
age  of  the  day.  Still,  night  is  full  of  magnifi- 
cence ;  and,  for  many,  it  is  more  brilliant  than  the 
day. 

Mme.  Swetchine. 

A  mother's  tenderness  and  caresses  are  the 
milk  of  the  heart. 

Mil'',  de  Gufrin. 


'9 

Many  have  lived  on  a  pedestal,  who  will  never 
have  a  statue  when  dead. 

Bfranger. 

In  eternal  cares  we  spend  our  years,  ever  agi- 
tated by  new  desires  :  we  look  forward  to  living, 

and  yet  never  live. 

Fontenelle. 

Frequently  the  curses  of  men  bring  the  bless- 
ings of  Heaven. 

Lamennais. 

There  are  some  moral  conditions  in  which 
Death  smiles  upon  us,  as  smiles  a  silent  and  peace- 
ful night  upon  the  exhausted  laborer. 

Alfred  Merrier. 

At  the  age  when  the  faculties  droop,  when  stern 
experience  has  destroyed  all  sweet  illusions,  man 
may  seek  solitude ;  but,  at  twenty,  the  affections 
which  he  is  compelled  to  repress  are  a  tomb  in 
which  he  buries  himself  alive. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Doubt  follows  white- winged  Hope  with  a  limp- 
ing gait. 

Balzac. 

Progress  is  lame. 

Sainte-Beuvf. 


2O 


Great  vices,  and  great  virtues,  are  exceptions 
in  mankind. 

Napoleon  I. 

It  is  easier  to  take  care  of  a  peck  of  fleas  than 
of  one  woman. 

Proverb. 


Hope  is  the  gardener  of  the  heart. 

De  Finod. 


Many  men  kill  themselves  for  love,  but  many 
more  women  die  of  it. 

Lemontey. 

No  one  knows  himself  until  he  has  suffered. 

A.  de  Musset. 

Who  would  venture  upon  the  journey  of  life,  if 
compelled  to  begin  it  at  the  end? 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

All  those  observers  who  have  spent  their  lives 
in  the  study  of  the  human  heart,  know  less  about 
the  signs  of  love  than  the  most  brainless,  yet  sensi- 
tive woman. 

.     .  Rousseau. 


There  are  no  oaths  that  make  so  many  perju- 
rers as  the  vows  of  love. 

Rochebrune. 


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One  can  impose  silence  on  sentiment,  but  one 
can  not  give  it  limits. 

Mme.  Necker. 

Women  deceived  by  men  want  to  marry  them : 
it  is  a  kind  of  revenge  as  good  as  any  other. 

Beaumanoir. 

Recollection  is  the  only  paradise  out  of  which 
we  can  not  be  driven. 


One  must  tell  women  only  what  one  wants   to 
be  known. 

Caron. 

One  blushes  oftener  from  the  wounds  of  self- 
love  than  from  modesty. 

Mme,  Guibert. 

Between  the  mouth  and  the  kiss,  there  is  al- 
ways time  for  repentance. 

A.  Ricard. 


Prosperity  makes  few  friends. 

Vauvenargues. 

The  thought  of  eternity  consoles    us  for  the 
shortness  of  life. 

Malesherbes, 


22 


He  is  the  happiest  who  renders  the  greatest 
number  happy. 

Desmahis. 

Flow,  wine !  smile,  woman !  and  the  universe 
is  consoled ! 

Blranger. 

We  should  not  pass  from  the  earth  without 
leaving  traces  to  carry  our  memory  to  posterity. 

Napoleon  I, 

The  moral  amelioration  of  man  constitutes  the 
chief  mission  of  woman. 

A.  Comte. 

Everywhere  the  strong  have  made  the  laws  and 
oppressed  the  weak ;  and,  if  they  have  sometimes 
consulted  the  interests  of  society,  they  have  always 
forgotten  those  of  humanity. 

Turgot. 

We  rarely  confess  that  we  deserve  what  we 

suffer. 

Quesnel, 

Under  the  freest  constitution  ignorant  people 

are  still  slaves. 

Condorcet. 

Love  decreases  when  it  ceases  to  increase. 

Chateaubriand. 


23 

Imagination  has  more  charm  in  writing  than 
in  speaking :  great  wings  must  fold  before  enter- 
ing a  salon. 

Prince  de  Ligne. 

In  separations,  the  one  who  departs  is  the  soon- 
est consoled. 

Mme.  de  Montolieu. 

Partake  of  love  as  a  temperate  man  partakes 
of  wine :  do  not  become  intoxicated. 

A.  de  Musset. 

The  last  census  of  France  embraced  nearly 
twenty  millions  of  women.  Happy  rascal ! 


In  love   affairs,  from  innocence   to  the  fault, 
there  is  but  a  kiss. 

A.  Second. 

Fortune   does   not   change   men  :  it   unmasks 
them. 

Mme.  Necker. 

Virtue  and  Love  are  two  ogres :  one  must  eat 
the  other. 

D'Houdetot. 

The  table  is  the  only  place  where  we  do  not 
get  weary  during  the  first  hour. 

Brillat  -Savarin. 


24 

Love  never  dies  of  starvation,  but  often  of  in- 
digestion. 

Ninon  de  Lendos. 

Man  corrupts  all  that  he  touches. 

Montaigne. 

Shun  idleness :  it  is  the  rust  that  attaches  it- 
self to  the  most  brilliant  metals. 

Voltaire. 

He  who  is  devoted  to  everybody  is  devoted  to 
nobody. 

.  C.  Delavigne. 

Of  all  serious  things,  marriage  is  the  most  ludi- 
crous. 

Beaumarchais. 

The  waves  of  life  toss  our  destinies  like  sea- 
weeds detached  from  the  rock.  Houses  are  ships 
which  receive  but  passengers. 

Souvestre. 

The  man  who  enters  his  wife's  dressing-room 

is  either  a  philosopher,  or  a  fool. 

Balzac. 

The  sowing  of  wild  oats  is  necessary  in  the 
life  of  a  man.  Libertinism  is  a  leaven  that  fer- 
ments sooner  or  later. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 


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The  Devil  and  Love  are  but  one. 


Voltaire. 


Hope  is  a  lure.  There  is  no  hand  that  can 
retain  a  wave  or  a  shadow. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Inopportune  consolations  increase  a  deep  sor- 
row. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

We  instinctively  abhor  calumny  as  we  do  a 
snake,  for  fear  of  its  venom ;  but,  is  our  aversion 
to  it  so  great  when  it  attacks  others  ? 

De  Finod. 

Let  youth  dance  :  tempests  of  the  heart  arise 
after  the  repose  of  the  limbs. 

Lemontey. 

How  many  languish  in  obscurity,  who  would 
become  great  if  emulation  and  encouragement  in- 
cited them  to  exertion ! 

Ftnelon. 

Woman  is  an  idol  that  man  worships,  until  he 
throws  it  down. 


Many  benefit  by  the  caresses  they  have  not  in- 
spired ;  many  a  vulgar  reality  serves  as  a  pedestal 

to  an  ideal  idol. 

T.  Gautier. 


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Necessity  is  a  severe  schoolmistress. 

Montaigne. 

If  all  hearts  were  frank,  just,  and  honest,  the 
major  part  of  the  virtues  would  be  useless  to  us. 

Moliere. 

O  woman !  it  is  thou  that  causest  the  tempests 
that  agitate  mankind. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

War  is  not  as  onerous  as  servitude. 

Vauvenargues. 

Glory,  ambition,  armies,  fleets,  thrones,  crowns: 
playthings  of  grown  children. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Great  men  are  like  meteors :  they  glitter  and 
are  consumed  to  enlighten  the  world. 

Napoleon  I. 

Oh,  poor  hearts  of  poets,  eager  for  the  infinite 
in  love,  will  you  never  be  understood  ? 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

Irony  is  the  purulence  of  our  moral  wounds. 

De  Finod. 


27 

WRITTEN  ON  A  SKULL  :  Lamp,  what  hast  thou 
done  with  the  flame?  Skeleton,  what  hast  thou 
done  with  the  soul?  Deserted  cage,  what  hast 
thou  done  with  the  bird?  Volcano,  what  hast 
thou  done  with  the  lava  ?  Slave,  what  hast  thou 

done  with  thy  master  ? 

Mme.  A.  Segalas. 

We  salute  more  willingly  an  acquaintance  in  a 
carriage  than  a  friend  on  foot. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

The  virtuous  woman  who  falls  in  love  is  much 
to  be  pitied. 

La  Rochefoucauld, 

To  despise  money  is  to  dethrone  a  king. 

Chamfort. 

Instruction  is  to  the  proletary  what  liberty  is 
to  the  slave :  the  latter  emancipates  the  body,  the 
former  emancipates  the  intelligence. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

All  thinkers  have  about  the  same  principles, 
and  form  but  one  republic. 

Voltaire. 

A  poet  is  a  world  inclosed  in  a  man. 

Victor  Hugo. 


28 


The  devil  must  be  very  powerful,  since  the 
sacrifice  of  a  god  for  men  has  not  rendered  them 
any  better. 

Piron. 

O  world  !  how  many  hopes  thou  dost  engulf! 

A.  de  Musset, 

Women  swallow  at  one  mouthful  the  lie  that 
flatters,  and  drink  drop  by  drop  a  truth  that  is 
bitter. 

Diderot. 

It  is  not  easy  to  be  a  widow :  one  must  reas- 
sume  all  the  modesty  of  girlhood,  without  being 
allowed  to  even  feign  its  ignorance. 

Mme.  de  Girardin. 

A  handsome  face  is  a  mute  recommendation. 


Virginity  is  poetry :  it  does  not  exist  for  fools. 

Limayrac. 

What  woman  desires  is  written  in  heaven. 

La  Chaussee. 

Life  often  seems  but  a  long  shipwreck,  of 
which  the  debris  are  friendship,  glory,  and  love  : 
the  shores  of  our  existence  are  strewn  with  them. 

Mine,  de  Stdel. 


29 

Alas!  how  can  we  always  resist?     The  devil 

tempts  us,  and  the  flesh  is  weak. 

Voltaire. 

Barbarism  recommences  by  the  excess  of  civ- 
ilization. 

Lamartine. 

There  are  three  things  that  I  have  always  loved 
and  have  never  understood  :  Painting,  Music,  and 
Woman. 

Fontenelle. 

A  philosopher  is  a  fool  who  torments  himself 
during  life,  to  be  spoken  of  when  dead. 

D  'Alembert. 

How  many  women  would  laugh  at  the  funerals 
of  their  husbands,  if  it  were  not  the  custom  to 
weep  ! 


Beware  of  him  who  meets  you  with  a  friendly 
mien,  and,  in  the  midst  of  a  cordial  salutation, 

seeks  to  avoid  your  glance. 

Lavater. 

There  is  no  torture  that  a  woman  would  not 
suffer  to  enhance  her  beauty. 

Montaigne. 


Alas!    what  does  man  here  below?     A  little 
noise  in  much  shadow. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Modesty  in  woman  is  a  virtue  most  deserving, 
since  we  do  all  we  can  to  cure  her  of  it. 

Lingrfe. 

The  more  hidden  the  venom,  the  more  danger- 
ous it  is. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

It  was  Love  who  invented  music. 

Virey. 

Happiness  is  a  bird  that  we  pursue  our  life 
long,  without  catching  it. 


An  idle  man  is  like  stagnant  water:  he  corrupts 
himself. 

Latlna. 

Love    makes   mutes  of  those  who  habitually 
speak  most  fluently. 

Mile,  de  ScudM. 

He  who  tries  to  prove  too  much,  proves  nothing. 

Proverb. 

A  woman  with  whom  one  discusses  love  is  al- 
ways in  expectation  of  something 

Poincelot. 


0  God !    thy  pity  must  have   been  profound 
when  this  miserable  world  emerged  from  chaos ! 

A.  de  Musset. 

1  have  seen  more  than  one  woman  drown  her 
honor  in  the  clear  water  of  diamonds. 

D  'Houdetot. 

Love  is  the  sin  of  all  men. 

Du  Base. 

One  knows  the  value  of  pleasure  only  after  he 
has  suffered  pain. 

Fontenelle. 

Attention  is  a  tacit  and  continual  compliment. 

Mme.  Swetchine. 

The  power  of  words  is  immense.  A  well-chosen 
word  has  often  sufficed  to  stop  a  flying  army,  to 
change  defeat  into  victory,  and  to  save  an  empire. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

One  of  the  sweetest  pleasures  of  a  woman  is  to 
cause  regret. 

Gavarni. 

Solitude  causes  us  to  write  because  it  causes 
us  to  think 

Mile,  de  Gutrin. 


32 

Love  is  a  bird  that  sings  in  the  heart  of  woman. 

A.  Karr. 

Death  is  the  only  trustworthy  friend  of  the  mis- 
erable. 

To  hate  is  a  torment. 

Slgur. 

The  desire  to  please  is  born  in  woman  before 
the  desire  to  love. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

Constancy  is  the  chimera  of  love. 

Vauvenargues. 

Polygamy  ought  to  be  obligatory  on  physicians. 
It  would  be  only  just  to  compel  those  who  de- 
populate the  world  to  repopulate  it  a  little. 

The  pretension  of  youth  always  gives  to  a  wo- 
man a  few  more  years  than  she  really  has. 

Jouy. 

Hope  says  to  us  at  every  moment :  Go  on  !  go 
on !  and  leads  us  thus  to  the  grave. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

Cleanliness  is  the  toilet  of  old  age. 

Mme.  Necker. 


33 

« 

The  prejudices  of  men  emanate  from  the  mind, 
and  maybe  overcome;  the  prejudices  of  women 
emanate  from  the  heart,  and  are  impregnable. 

D  'Argens. 

A  prude  ought  to  be  condemned  to  meet  only 
indiscreet  lovers. 

Raisson. 

Friendship  is  a  shield  that  blunts  the  darts  of 
adversity. 

Mme,  de  Saint-Surin. 

Whoever  has  loved  knows  all  that  life  contains 
of  sorrow  and  of  joy. 

George  Sand. 

Modesty  secretly  awakes  desire  :  it  is  the  most 
chaste,  the  most  delicate,  and  the  most  attractive 
of  all  provocations. 

Poincelot. 

The  only  true  and  firm  friendship  is  that  be- 
tween man  and  woman,  because  it  is  the  only  af- 
fection exempt  from  actual  or  possible  rivalry. 

A.  Comte. 

Grief  counts  the  seconds:   happiness  forgets 

the  hours. 

De  Finod. 
3 


34 

The  yoke  of  love  is  sometimes  heavier  than 

that  of  all  the  virtues. 

Montaigne. 

Paradise,  as  described  by  the  theologians,  seems 
to  me  too  musical :  I  confess  that  I  should  be  in- 
capable of  listening  to  a  cantata  that  would  last 

ten  thousand  years. 

T.  Gautier. 

We  are  always  more  disposed  to  laugh  at  non- 
sense than  at  genuine  wit;  because  the  nonsense 
is  more  agreeable  to  us,  being  more  comformable 
to  our  own  natures :  fools  love  folly,  and  wise  men 

wisdom. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Use,  do  not  abuse  :  neither  abstinence  nor  ex- 
cess ever  renders  man  happy. 

Voltaire. 

Those  who  seek  happiness  in  ostentation  and 
dissipation,  are  like  those  who  prefer  the  light  of  a 
candle  to  the  splendor  of  the  sun. 

Napoleon  I. 

The  virtue  of  women  is  often  the  love  of  repu- 
tation and  quiet. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  prayers  of  a  lover  are  more  imperious  than 
the  menaces  of  the  whole  world. 

George  Sand, 


35 

There  are  those  who  have  nothing  chaste  but 
their  ears,  and  nothing  virtuous  but  their  tongues. 

De  Finod, 


<^\  The  moment  past  is  no  longer  :  the  future  may 

f     never  be :  the  present  is  all  of  which  man  is  the 
<"     master. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 


God  speaks  to  our  hearts  through  the  voice  of 
remorse. 

De  Bernis. 

A  revolution  is  the  lava  of  a  civilization. 

Victor  Hugo. 

To  love  is  to  admire  with  the  heart ;  to  admire 
is  to  love  with  the  mind. 

T.  Gautier. 

Practice  is  to  theory  what  the  feet  are  to  the 
head. 

E.  de  Girardiit. 

We  like  to  give  in  the  sunlight,  and  to  receive 

in  the  dark. 

y.  Petit-Senn. 

Glances  are  the  first  billets-doux  of  love. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 


36 
Fools  never  understand  people  of  wit. 

Vauvenargues. 

The  world  is  a  masked  ball. 

Miry. 

We  attract  hearts  by  the  qualities  we  display ; 
we  retain  them  by  the  qualities  we  possess. 

Suard. 

Gratitude  is  a  cross-road  that  leads  quickly  to 
love. 

T.  Gautier. 

Beauty  and  ugliness  disappear  equally  under 
the  wrinkles  of  age :  one  is  lost  in  them,  the  other 
hidden. 

y.  Petit-Senn. 

There  are  some  who  are  born  with  a  sorrow  in 
the  heart. 

Lamennais. 

The  ruses  of  women  multiply  with  their  years. 

Proverb. 

The  world  boasts  that  it  can  render  men 
happy ! 

Massillon. 


37 

The  reading  of  romances  will  always  be  the 
favorite  amusement  of  women :  old,  they  peruse 
them  to  recall  what  they  have  experienced  ;  young 
to  anticipate  what  they  wish  to  experience. 

A.  Ricard. 

When  we  combat  that  which  we  love,  soonef 
or  later  we  succumb. 

Marivaux. 

Science  seldom  renders  men  amiable  ;  women, 
never. 

BeaucMne. 

Let  us  make  no  vows,  but  let  us  act  as  if  we 
had. 

Rochepldrt. 

Whoever  is  suspicious  incites  treason. 

Voltaire. 
Presumption  is  the  daughter  of  ignorance. 

Rivarol. 

That  a  country  may  be  truly  free,  the  people 
should  be  all  philosophers,  and  the  rulers  all 
gods. 

Napoleon  /. 

Chance  is  a  nickname  for  Providence. 

CAam/ort. 


38 

It  is  not  the  weathercock  that  changes :  it  is 
the  wind. 

C.  Desmoulins. 

Women  are  in  the  moral  world  what  flowers 
are  in  the  physical. 

S.  Marlcfial. 

Fanaticism  is  to  religion  what  hypocrisy  is  to 
virtue. 

Palissot. 

Our  happiness  is  but  an  unhappiness  more  or 
less  consoled. 

Ducts. 

Women  should  be  careful  of  their  conduct,  for 
appearances  sometimes  injure  them  as  much  as 
faults. 

AbbS  Girard. 

The  fool  maintains  an  error  with  the  assurance 
of  a  man  who  can  never  be  mistaken  :  the  sensible 
man  defends  a  truth  with  the  circumspection  of  a 
man  who  may  be  mistaken. 

De  Bruix. 

Tears  are  the  strength  of  women. 

Saint-Evremond. 


Where  pride  begins,  love  ends. 

Lavater. 


39 

Greece,  so  much  praised  for  her  wisdom,  never 
produced  but  seven  wise  men :  judge  of  the  num- 
ber of  fools  ! 

Grlcourt. 

A  man  must  be  a  fool,  who  does  not  succeed  in 
making  a  woman  believe  that  which  flatters  her. 

Balzac. 

Vanity  is  the  quicksand  of  reason. 

George  Sand. 

Philosophy  triumphs  easily  over  evils  past  and 
evils  to  come ;  but,  present  evils  triumph  over 
philosophy. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Better  to  know  the  darker  sides  of  life,  than  to 
slumber  in  dangerous  illusions. 

De  Finod. 

To  be  happy  is  not  to  enjoy  :  it  is  not  to  suffer. 

Raspail. 

Better  to  have  never  loved,  than  to  have  loved 
unhappily,  or  to  have  half  loved. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

Love  makes  time  pass,  and  time  makes  love 
pass. 

Proverb. 


40 

What  a  chimera  is  man  !  What  a  confused 
chaos!  What  a  subject  of  contradictions!  A 
professed  judge  of  all  things,  and  yet  a  feeble 
worm  of  the  earth !  the  great  depositary  and 
guardian  of  truth,  and  yet  a  mere  bundle  of  un- 
certainties !  the  glory  and  the  shame  of  the  uni- 
verse ! 

Pascal. 

-  Vanity,  shame,  and,  above  all,  temperament, 
often  make  the  valor  of  men,  and  the  virtue  of 

women. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

One  always  wishes  to  be  happy  before  becom- 
ing wise. 

Mme.  Necker. 

Tenderness  is  increased  by  pity. 

Mme.  Dufresnoy. 

Love  is  the  passion  of  great  souls :  it  makes 
them  merit  glory,  when  it  does  not  turn  their  heads, 

Mme.  de  Pompadour. 

There  is  no  bitterer  grief  than  a  happy  remem- 
brance in  a  day  of  sorrow. 

A.  de  Mussel. 

In  love  affairs,  a  young  shepherdess  is  a  better 

partner  than  an  old  queen. 

De  Fined. 


41 


Nothing  is  so  embarrassing  as  the  first 
/<?/<?,  when  there  is  everything  to  say,  unless  it  be 
the  last,  when  everything  has  been  said. 

N.  Roqueplan. 

The  great  are  great  only  because  we  are  on  our 
knees.     Let  us  rise  ! 

Pru<fhomme. 


A  lover  is  never  wrong. 

Balzac. 


Many  smile  who  bite. 

Cotgrave. 

The  greatest  of  all  pleasures  is  to  give  pleasure 
to  one  we  love. 

Boufflers. 

Of  all  things  that  man  possesses,  women  alone 
take  pleasure  in  being  possessed. 

Mallierbe. 

The  gods  have  attached  almost  as  many  mis- 
fortunes to  liberty  as  to  servitude. 

Montesquieu. 

God  created  woman  only  to  tame  man. 

Voltaire. 

Man  laughs  and  weeps  at  the  same  things. 

Montaigne. 


42 

There  is  no  greater  fool  than  he  who  thinks 
himself  wise ;  no  one  wiser  than  he  who  suspects 
he  is  a  fool. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Anything  serves  as  a  pretext  for  the  wicked. 

Voltaire. 

All  skulls  seem. to  laugh.  Perhaps  it  is  at  the 
epitaph  engraved  on  their  tomb. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

Woman  is  the  symbol  of  moral  and  physical 
beauty. 

T.  Gautier. 
Audacity  of  thought  is  seldom  forgiven. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 


Crime,  as  well  as  virtue,  has  its  degrees. 

Racine. 


The  stomach  is  a  slave  that  must  accept  every- 
thing that  is  given  to  it,  but  which  avenges  wrongs 
as  slyly  as  the  slave  does. 

E.  Souvestre. 

We  promise  much,  that  we  may  give  little. 

Vauvenargues. 


43 
History  is  the  conscience  of  humanity. 

E.  de  Girardm. 

A  child  becomes  for  his  parents,  according  to 
the  education  he  receives,  a  blessing  or  a  chastise- 
ment. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

For  one  virtue  that  makes«us  walk,  how  many 
vices  make  us  run  ! 

Picket. 

There  are  some  faults  which,  when  well  man- 
aged, make  a  greater  figure  than  virtue  itself. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  widow  is  like  a  frigate  of  which  the  first  cap- 
tain has  been  shipwrecked. 

A.  Karr. 

He  who  receives  his  friends,  and  takes  no  per- 
sonal care  in  preparing  the  meal  that  is  designed 
for  them,  is  not  deserving  of  friends. 

Brillat-Savarin. 

All  joys  do  not  cause  laughter ;  great  pleasures 
are  serious :  pleasures  of  love  do  not  make  us  laugh. 

Voltaire. 


44 

Every  man  carries  in  his  soul  a  sepulchre — 
that  of  his  youth. 


O.  Firmez. 


Woman  is  a  flower  that  exhales  her  perfume 
only  in  the  shade. 


Lamennais. 

There  are  in  the  human  heart  two  cups,  one 
for  joy  and  one  for  sorrow,  which  empty  themselves 
alternately. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

Intelligent  people  make  many  blunders,  because 
they  never  believe  the  world  as  stupid  as  it  is. 

Chamfort. 

One  is  always  a  woman's  first  lover. 

Laclos. 

All  our  tastes  are  but  reminiscences. 

iMtnartine. 

Everything  falls  and  is  effaced.  A  few  feet  un- 
der the  ground  reigns  so  profound  a  silence,  and 
yet,  so  much  tumult  on  the  surface ! 

Victor  Hugo. 

The  source  of  all  passions  is  sensitiveness :  it 
is  the  errors  of  imagination  that  transform  them 

into  vices. 

jf,  *jf.  Rousxau. 


45 

O  unfortunates  who  sin  without  pleasure !  in 
your  errors  be  more  reasonable ;  be,  at  least,  for- 
tunate sinners.  Since  you  must  be  damned,  be 

damned  for  amiable  faults. 

Voltaire. 

Society  welcomes  only  those  who  amuse,  or 
flatter. 

De  Finod. 

There  are  hours  in  life  when  the  most  trifling 
annoyances  assume  the  proportions  of  a  catas- 
trophe. 

E,  Souvestre. 


Death  is  the  origin  of  another  life. 

Montaigne. 


What  a  fool  is  he  who  says  to  a  woman,  Will 
you  ?  Dost  not  know,  simpleton,  that  they  always 
pretend  not  to  be  willing  ? 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

There  is  in  us  more  of  the  appearance  of  sense 
and  of  virtue  than  of  the  reality. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

The  world  does  not  understand  that  we  can 

prefer  anything  else  to  it. 

George  Sand. 


46 

All  our  wisdom  consists  of  but  servile  preju- 
dices. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Repentance  is  an  avowed  remorse. 

Mme.  Swetchine. 

Laws  should  be  clear,  uniform,  precise  :  to  in- 
terpret them  is  nearly  always  to  corrupt  them. 

Voltaire. 


He  who  flatters  you  is  your  enemy. 

Cardan. 


Whenever  the  good  done  to  us  does  not  touch 
and  penetrate  the  heart,  it  wounds  and  irritates 
our  vanity. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

In  delicate  souls,  love  never  presents  itself  but 
under  the  veil  of  esteem. 

Mme.  Roland. 

A  corrupted  and  weakened  community  breaks 
down  in  immense  catastrophes;  the  iron  harrow 
of  revolutions  crushes  men  like  the  clods  of  the 
field  ;  but,  in  the  blood-stained  furrows  germinates 
a  new  generation,  and  the  soul  aggrieved,  believes 

again. 

Guizot. 


47 

A  skeptic  is  not  one  who  doubts,  but  one  who 
examines. 

Sainte-Beuve. 

As  a  man's  yes  and  no,  so  his  character.  A 
prompt  yes  or  no  marks  the  firm,  the  quick,  the 
decided  character;  and  a  slow,  the  cautious  or 

timid. 

Lavater. 


Everything  is  two-faced — even  virtue. 

Balzac. 


The  envious  will  die,  but  envy — never. 

Moliere. 

In  all  companies  there  are  more  fools  than  wise 
men ;  and  the  greater  number  always  get  the  bet- 
ter of  the  wiser. 

Rabelais. 

Woman  is  the  Sunday  of  man. 

Michelet. 

A  great  career  is  a  dream  of  youth  realized  in 
mature  age. 

De  Vigny 

Sorrow  makes  us  very  good  or  very  bad. 

George  Sand. 

Childhood  is  the  sleep  of  reason. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 


48 

Love  is  the  offspring  of  chance :  its  nurse  is 
habit. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  highest  mark  of  esteem  a  woman  can  give 
a  man  is  to  ask  his  friendship ;  and  the  most  sig- 
nal proof  of  her  indifference  is  to  offer  him  hers. 


At  the  banquet  of  life,  an  unfortunate  guest,  I 
one  day  appeared  ;  now,  I  am  dying.  Dying !  and 
none  there  are  to  shed  a  tear  over  the  tomb  that 
awaits  me ! 

Gilbert. 

Love!  Love!  Eternal  enigma!  Will  not  the 
Sphinx  that  guards  thee  find  an  GEdipus  to  explain 
thee  ? 

F.  Pyat. 

One  may  be  better  than  his  reputation  or  his 
conduct,  but  never  better  than  his  principles. 

Latvia. 

At  twenty,  man  is  less  a  lover  of  woman  than 
of  women :  he  is  more  in  love  with  the  sex  than 
with  the  individual,  however  charming  she  may  be. 

Rttifde  la  Bretonne. 


49 

The  change  of  fashions  is  the  tax  that  the  in- 
dustry of  the  poor  levies  on  the  vanity  of  the  rich. 

Chamfort. 

There  is  no  more  agreeable  companion  than 
the  woman  who  loves  us. 

Bernardin  de  St.  Pierre. 

The  knowledge  of  the  charms  one  possesses 
prompts  one  to  utilize  them. 

Slnancourt. 

So*  long  as  people  are  subject  to  disease  and 
death,  they  will  run  after  physicians,  however 
much  they  may  deride  them. 

La  Bruylre. 

Everything  is  good  as  it  comes  from  the  hands 
of  the  Creator;  everything  deteriorates  in  the  hands 

of  man. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 

Virtue,  as  understood  by  the  world,  is  a  con- 
stant struggle  against  the  laws  of  nature. 

De  Finod. 

Diversity  of  opinion  proves  that  things  are 
only  what  w«  think  them. 

Montaigne. 


5° 

Men  commonly  injure  one  another  without 
cause,  and  simply  to  do  something:  as  an  idle  pro- 
menader  in  a  garden,  breaks  the  young  branches, 
and  strips  off  the  leaves  of  the  most  beautiful 

flowers. 

E.  Suuvesti*, 

A  fool  always  finds  some  one  more  foolish  than 
he  to  admire  him. 

Boileau, 

I  can  not  see  why  women  are  so  desirous  of 
imitating  men.  I  could  understand  the  wish  to 
be  a  boa  constrictor,  a  lion,  or  an  elephant ;  but 
a  man  !  that  surpasses  my  comprehension. 

T.  Gautier. 

Pleasure  has  its  time;  so,  too,  has  wisdom. 
Make  love  in  thy  youth,  and  in  old  age,  attend  to 
thy  salvation. 

Voltaire. 

If  much  reason  is  necessary  to  remain  in 
celibacy,  still  more  is  required  to  marry.  One 
must  then  have  reason  for  two ;  and  often  all  the 
reason  of  the  two  does  not  make  one  reasonable 
being. 

Balzac. 

Love  has  compensations  that  friendship  has 
not. 

Montaigne. 


5' 

What  would  we  not  give  to  still  have  in  store 
the  first  blissful  moment  we  ever  enjoyed ! 

Rochepldre. 

Whatever  good  is  said  of  us,  we  learn  nothing 
new. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Men  declare  their  love  before  they  feel  it ;  wo- 
men confess  theirs  only  after  they  have  proved  it. 

Latina. 

The  human  heart  will  always  be  the  abyss  of 
reason. 


There  are  profound  sorrows  which  remain 
stored  in  our  souls,  and  which  we  always  find 
there  when  we  are  melancholy. 

Mine,  de  Saint. 

Two  powerful  destroyers :  Time  and  Adver- 
sity. 

A.  de  Afusset. 

Men  always  say  more  evil  of  women  than  there 
really  is ;  and  there  is  always  more  than  is  known. 

Mezerai. 

The  best  shelter  for  a  girl  is  her  mother's  wing. 


52 

Every  age  has  its  different  inclinations,  but 
man  is  always  the  same.  At  ten,  he  is  led  by 
sweetmeats,  at  twenty  by  a  mistress,  at  thirty  by 
pleasure,  at  forty  by  ambition,  at  fifty  by  avarice. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

From  Paris  to  Peru,  from  Japan  to  Rome,  the 
most  foolish  animal,  in  my  estimation,  is  man. 

Boileau. 


Death  is  a  panacea  for  all  evils. 

Montaigne. 


I  do  not  know  in  the  whole  history  of  the  world 
a  hero,  a  worthy  man,  a  prophet,  a  true  Christian, 
who  has  not  been  the  victim  of  the  jealous,  of  a 
scamp,  or  of  a  sinister  spirit. 

Voltaire. 

What  a  pity  that  we  can  not  accomplish  our 
salvation  as  easily  as  our  damnation ! 

De  Finod. 

The  thought  of  death  is  more  cruel  than  death 
itself. 

De  la  Boetie. 

Everybody  exclaims  against  ingratitude.  Are 
there  so  many  benefactors? 

Alfred  Bougeart. 


53 

The  virtuous  action,  done  for  virtue's  sake 
alone,  is  truly  laudable. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Jealousy  is  the  sister  of  Love — as  the  devil  is 
the  brother  of  the  angels. 

Boufflers. 

Woman  among  savages  is  a  beast  of  burden; 
in  Asia,  she  is  a  piece  of  furniture ;  in  Europe,  she 
is  a  spoiled  child. 

Senac  de  Meilhan. 

Love  makes  us  thin.  If  a  codfish  were  a  wid- 
ow, she  would  become  fat. 

Provencal  Proverb. 

Men  are  women's  playthings;  women  are  the 
devil's. 

Victor  Hugo. 

The  heart  is  like  the  tree  that  gives  balm  for 
the  wounds  of  man,  only  when  the  iron  has 
wounded  it. 

Chateaubriand. 

Always  driven  toward  new  shores,  or  carried 
hence  without  hope  of  return,  shall  we  never,  on 
the  ocean  of  age,  cast  anchor  for  even  a  day  ' 

Latnai  tine. 


54 

Two  smiles  that  approach  each  other  end  in  a 
kiss. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Even  if  women  were  immortal,  they  could  never 
foresee  their  last  lover. 

Lamennais. 

How  many  people  assume  boldly  the  mask  of 
virtue  ! 

Mile,  de  Scudlri. 

If  you  believe  in  evil,  you  have  done  evil. 

A.  de  Musset. 

The  more  one  judges,  the  less  one  loves. 

Balzac. 

The  heart  of  a  statesman  should  be  in  his  head. 

Napoleon  I. 

The  passions  are  the  orators  of  great  assem- 
blies. 

Rivarol, 

To  forgive  a  fault  in  another   is  more  sublime 
than  to  be  faultless  one's  self. 

George  Sand. 

The  surest  way  to  please  is  to  forget  one's  self, 
and  to  think  only  of  others. 

Moncrif. 


55 

The  dream  of  happiness  is  real  happiness. 

Fontanes, 


The  beautiful  is  always  severe. 

Sigur. 


An  indiscreet  man  is  an  unsealed  letter  :  every 
one  can  read  it. 

Chamfort. 

Youth  is  presumptuous,  old  age  is  timid :  the 
former  aspires  to  live,  the  latter  has  lived. 

Mme.  Roland, 

We  never  live :  we  are  always  in  expectation 
of  living. 

Voltaire. 

Great  thoughts  spring  from  the  heart. 

Vauvenargues. 

Prosperity  unmasks  the  vices;  adversity  re- 
veals the  virtues. 

Diderot. 

A  man  should  never  blush  in  confessing  his 
errors,  for  he  proves  by  his  avowal  that  he  is  wiser 
to-day  than  yesterday. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 


Patience  is  the  courage  of  virtue. 

Bernardin  de  St.  Pierre. 

A  woman  without  beauty  knows  but  half  of 
life. 

Mme.  de  Montaran. 

No  man  has  yet  discovered  the  means  of  giving 
successfully  friendly  advice  to  women — not  even 
to  his  own. 

Balzac. 

The  world  maddens  some,  and  brutifies  others. 

De  Finod. 

If  Cleopatra's  nose  had  been  shorter,  the  face 
of  the  whole  world  would  have  been  changed. 

Pascal. 

Men  would  be  saints  if  they  loved  God  as  they 
love  women. 

Saint  Thomas. 

We  like  to  know  the  weaknesses  of  eminent 
persons  :  it  consoles  us  for  our  inferiority. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 

In  love,  the  importance  lies  in  the  beginning. 
I  The  world  knows  well  that  whoever  takes  one  step 
will  take  more :  it  is  important,  then,  to  take  the 
first  step  well. 

Fontenelle, 


57 

Women  live  only  in  the  emotion  that  love  gives. 
An  old  lady  confessed  that  she  had  loved  much, 
when  young :  "  Ah !  "  she  exclaimed,  "  the  exqui- 
site pain  of  those  days !  " 

A.  Houssaye. 

He  who  has  neither  friend,  nor  enemy,  is  with- 
out talents,  powers,  or  energy. 

Lavater. 

Casuists  who  made  absolute  chastity  a  virtue, 
have  produced  but  false  appearances  in  a  hypo- 
critical society. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

Superstition  :  a  foolish  fear  of  the  Deity. 

La  Bruyire. 

A  republic  is  not  founded  on  virtue,  but  on  the 
ambition  of  its  citizens. 

Volt  ait  e. 

Inconstancy  is  sometimes  due  to  levity  of  mind, 
but  oftener  to  satiety. 

IM  Rochefoucauld. 

There  are  very  few  things  in  the  world  upon 
which  an  honest  man  can  repose  his  soul,  or  his 
thoughts. 

Chamfort. 


O  sweet  past !  sometimes  remembrance  raises 
thy  long  veil,  then  we  weep  in  recognizing  thee ! 

Mme.  Louise  Labi. 

To  discuss  an  opinion  with  a  fool  is  like  carry- 
ing a  lantern  before  a  blind  man. 

De  Gas  ton. 

No  faith  has  triumphed  without  its  martyrs. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Promises  retain  men  better  than  services.  For 
them,  hope  is  a  chain,  and  gratitude  a  thread. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

There  are  few  things  that  we  know  well. 

Vauvenargues. 

Men  bestow  compliments  only  on  women  who 
deserve  none. 

Mme.  Bachi. 

Marble,  pearl,  rose,  dove,  all  may  disappear : 
the  pearl  melts,  the  marble  breaks,  the  rose  fades, 
the  bird  escapes. 

T.  Gautier. 

When  ±he  intoxication  of  love  has  passed,  we 
laugh  at  the  perfections  it  had  discovered. 

Ninon  de  Lcnclos. 


59 

To  live  is  not  merely  to  breathe ;  it  is  to  act ; 
it  is  to  make  use  of  all  our  organs,  functions,  and 
faculties.  This  alone  gives  us  the  consciousness 
of  existence. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

The  only  confidence  that  one  can  repose  in  the 
most  discreet  woman  is  the  confidence  of  her 

beauty. 

Lemesles. 

Nature,  when  she  amused  herself  by  giving  stiff 
manners  to  old  maids,  put  virtue  in  a  very  bad 
light.  A  woman  must  have  been  a  mother  to  pre- 
serve under  the  chilling  influences  of  time  that 
grace  of  manner  and  sweetness  of  temper,  which 
prompt  us  to  say,  "  One  sees  that  love  has  dwelt 
there." 

Lemontey, 

Woman  is  the  sweetest  present  that  God  has 
given  to  man. 

Guyard. 

God  created  the  coquette  as  soon  as  he  had 
made  the  fool. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Scripture  says,  "The  beginning  of  wisdom  is 
the  fear  of  the  Lord."  I  say,  "The  beginning 
of  wisdom  is  the  fear  of  man." 

Chamfort 


6o 


It  is  easy  to  find  a  lover  and  to  retain  a  friend 
what  is  difficult  is  to  find  the  friend  and  to  retain 

the  lover. 

Livis. 

Women  like  brave  men  exceedingly,  but  auda- 
cious men  still  more. 

Lemesles, 

Marriage  should  combat  without  respite  or 
mercy  that  monster  which  devours  everything — 

habit. 

Balzac. 

Poets  are  like  birds :  the  least  thing  makes 
them  sing. 

Chateaubriand. 

We  censure  the  inconstancy  of  women  when 
we  are  the  victims :  we  find  it  charming  when  we 
are  the  objects. 

L,  Desnoyers. 

There  are  moments  of  intense  joy  and  grief, 
which  every  one  has,  at  least,  once  in  his  life,  that 
illuminate  his  character  at  once. 

Lavater. 

At  the  age  of  sixty,  to  marry  a  beautiful  girl  of 
sixteen,  is  to  imitate  those  ignorant  people  who 
buy  books  to  be  read  by  their  friends. 

A.  Ricard. 


6i 


The  world  is  a  picnic  to  which  every  one  takes 
his  basket,  to  carry  back  whatever  he  can  grasp. 


Life  resembles  a  cup  of  clear  water  which  be- 
comes muddy  as  we  drink  it. 

Mme.  Dufresnoy. 

Heaven  made  virtue ;  man,  the  appearance. 

Voltaire. 

Rascal !  That  word  on  the  lips  of  a  woman, 
addressed  to  a  too  daring  man,  often  means — 
angel ! 


Laughter  is  sometimes  the  knell  of  a  dead  illu- 
sion. 

De  Finod. 

Two  thirds  of  life  are  spent  in  hesitating,  and 
the  other  third  in  repenting. 

E.  Souvestre. 

Every  one  speaks  well  of  his  heart,  but  no  one 
dares  to  speak  well  of  his  mind. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

When  one  has  a  good  day  in  the  year,  one  is 

not  wholly  unfortunate. 

Marguerite  dt  Valois. 


A  litigant  at  law  should  have  three  bags :  one 
of  papers,  one  of  money,  and  one  of  patience. 

Proverb. 

Most  pleasures  embrace  but  to  strangle. 

Montaigne. 

Absence  is  a  cosmetic  that  softens  or  disguises 
the  greatest  defects. 


The  complement  of  love  is  passion. 

George  Sand. 

He  who  prays  and  bites  has  not  a  little  of  the 
devil  in  him. 

Lavater. 

When  our  vices  leave  us,  we  flatter  ourselves 
that  we  are  leaving  them. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Women  are  an  aristocracy. 

Michelet. 

The  energies  of  the  soul  slumber  in  the  vague 
reveries  of  hope. 

Mme.  Guizot. 

Remorse  is  the  last  sigh  of  expiring  virtue. 

La  Beaumelle, 


63 

Between  two  beings  susceptible  to  love,  the 
duration  of  love  depends  upon  the  first  resistance 
of  the  woman,  or  the  obstacles  that  society  puts  in 
their  way. 

Balzac. 

The  whisper  of  a  beautiful  woman  can  be  heard 
farther  than  the  loudest  call  of  duty. 


To  scoff  at  philosophy  is  to  act  as  a  true  phi- 
losopher. 

Pascal. 

Gratitude  is  the  memory  of  the  heart. 

Massieu. 

Youth  and  Will  may  resist  excess,  but  Nature 
takes  revenge  in  silence. 

A.  de  Musset. 

If  there  is  a  fruit  that  can  be  eaten  raw,  it  is 

beauty. 

A.  Karr. 

Devotion  is  the  last  love  of  women. 

Saint-Evremond 

Conviction  is  the  conscience  of  the  mind. 

Chamfort 


64 
Dress  changes  the  manners. 


Voltaire. 


It's  better  to  love  to-day  than  to-morrow.  A 
pleasure  postponed  is  a  pleasure  lost. 

A.  Ricard. 

It  is  better  to  sacrifice  one's  love  of  sarcasm 
than  to  indulge  it  at  the  expense  of  a  friend. 

O  poets!  what  injury  you  have  done  us,  and 
how  right  Plato  was  to  banish  you  from  his  repub- 
lic !  How  your  ambrosia  has  rendered  more  bitter 
our  absinth!  How  have  we  found  our  lives  more 
barren  and  more  desolate,  after  having  turned  our 
eyes  toward  the  sublime  perspectives  which  your 
dreams  have  opened  in  the  infinite  ! 

T.  Ganticr. 

Love,  that  sometimes   corrupts   pure    bodies, 

often  purifies  corrupt  hearts. 

Latena. 

The  anger  of  a  woman  is  the  greatest  evil  with 

which  one  can  threaten  his  enemies. 

Chilian. 

There  is  a  magic  in  the  word  duty,  something 
i  know  not  what,  which  sustains  magistrates,  in- 
flames warriors,  and  cools  married  people. 

H.  Dupuy. 


65 

The  heart  of  a  coquette  is  like  a  rose,  of  which 
the  lovers  pluck  the  leaves,  leaving  only  the  thorns 
for  the  husband. 


Old  age  is  a  tyrant  that  forbids  the  pleasures 
of  youth  on  pain  of  death. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Let  us  respect  white  hair — especially  our  own. 

Petit-Senn. 

How    many  sensations    are    attributed  to  the 
heart  which  have  no  connection  with  it ! 

De  Fined. 

Illusions  ruin  all  those  whom  they  blind. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Knowledge,  wit,  and  courage  alone  excite  our 
admiration ;  and  thou,  sweet  and  modest  Virtue, 

remainest  without  honors. 

J.  J.  Rousseau. 

Jealousy  is  the  homage  that  inferiority  pays  to 
merit. 

Mme.  de  Puisieux, 

To  profess  one  thing  and  to  do  another  occurs 
very  often,  especially  with  those  who  continually 

boast  of  their  virtue. 

T.  Gautier. 

S 


66 


Little  things  console  us,  because  little  things 

afflict  us. 

Pascal. 

There  are  people  who  are  almost  in  love,  almost 
famous,  and  almost  happy. 

Mme.  de  Krudener. 

The  more  an  idea  is  developed,  the  more  con- 
cise becomes  its  expression :  the  more  a  tree  is 
pruned,  the  better  is  the  fruit. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

The  unfortunate  who  prays  is  already  consoled. 

Millevoye. 

Women  of  the  world  never  use  harsh  expres- 
sions when  condemning  their  rivals.  Like  the 
savage,  they  hurl  elegant  arrows,  ornamented  with 
feathers  of  purple  and  azure,  but  with  poisoned 
points. 


Madame  X.  is  a  woman  of  too  much  wit  and 
cleverness  to  be  ever  despised  as  much  as  some 
women  less  despicable. 

Chamfort. 

Men  are  so  accustomed  to  lie,  that  one  can  not 
take  too  many  precautions  before  trusting  them — 
if  they  are  to  be  trusted  at  all. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 


Women  are  too  imaginative  and  sensitive  to 
have  much  logic. 

Mme.  du  Deffand. 

A  man  who  lives  in  indifference  is  one  who  has 
never  seen  the  woman  he  could  love. 

La  Bruyere 

Every  philosopher  is  cousin  to  an  atheist. 

A.  de  Musset. 

Nothing  proves  better  the  necessity  of  an  in- 
dissoluble marriage  than  the  instability  of  passion. 

Balzac. 

We  need  the  friendship  of  a  man  in  great  trials ; 
of  a  woman  in  the  affairs  of  every-day  life. 

A,  L.  Thomas. 

There  are  beautiful  flowers  that  are  scentless, 

and  beautiful  women  that  are  unlovable. 

Houellf. 

The  only  rose  without  thorns  is  friendship. 

Mile,  de  Scudiri. 

It  is  to  woman  that  the  heart  appeals  when  it 
needs  consolation. 

Demoustier. 


68 


Oh !  woe  to  him  who  first  had  the  cruelty  to 
ridicule  the  name  of  old  maid,  a  name  which  re- 
calls so  many  sorrowful  deceptions,  so  many  suf- 
ferings, so  much  destitution  !  Woe  to  him  who 
finds  a  target  for  his  sarcasm  in  an  involuntary 
misfortune,  and  who  crowns  white  hair  with  thorns ! 

E.  Souvestre. 

A  flattered  woman  is  always  indulgent. 

Chenier. 

Nowadays  we  no  longer  laugh  :  we  only  smile, 
and  our  pleasures  come  very  near  ennui. 

De  Bernis. 

Men  speak  of  what  they  know ;  women  of  what 
pleases  them. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

Virtue :  a  word  easy  to  pronounce,  difficult  to 

understand. 

Voltaire. 

There  is  a  greater  distance  between  some  men 
and  others,  than  between  some  men  and  the  beasts. 

Montaigne. 

All  who  suffer  are  full  of  hatred ;  all  who  live 
drag  a  remorse  :  the  dead  alone  have  broken  their 
chains. 

Victor  Hugo. 


69 

There  is  a  wide  difference  between  the  knowl- 
edge of  men  and  the  knowledge  of  man.  To  know 
man,  it  suffices  to  study  one's  self. 

Duclos. 

What  we  call  a  gentleman  is  no  longer  the  mr.n 
of  nature. 

Diderot. 

Fine  eyes  are  to  the  face  what  eloquence  is  to 
speech. 


We  can  not  always  oblige,  but  we  can  always 
speak  obligingly. 

Voltaire. 

Sensitive  souls  live  more  than  others. 

Duclos. 

An  injustice  to  one  is  a  menace  to  all. 

Montesquieu. 

Virtue  is  so  praiseworthy  that  wicked  people 
practice  it  from  self-interest. 

Vauvenargues. 

The  only  conquests  that  cause  no  regrets,  are 
those  made  over  ignorance. 

Napoleon  /. 

•  Gold  is  the  sovereign  of  sovereigns. 

RivaroL 


70 

Happy  he  who  finds  a  friend ;  without  that 
second  self  one  lives  but  half  of  life. 

Ctenedolli. 

There  are  people  so  sensitive  that  they  afflict 
us  with  our  own  sorrows. 

C.  Jordan. 

Justice  is  the  bread  of  nations :  they  are  al- 
ways famishing  for  it. 

Chateaubriand. 

O  future  ages,  what  will  be  your  fate  ?  Glory, 
like  a  shadow,  has  returned  to  heaven  ;  Love  no 
longer  exists;  life  is  devastated;  and  man,  left 
alone,  believes  but  in  Death. 

A.  de  Mussel. 


Fools  form  a  numerous  people. 

Florian. 


Coquetry  is  the  revenge  of  weakness. 


One  of  the  most  seductive  illusions  of  love  is  to 
imagine  that  we  contribute  to  the  happiness  of 
those  we  love. 

Bernardin  de  St,  Pierre. 

We  are  easily  persuaded  of  what  pleases  us. 

Mme.  de  Fontaines. 


Love  is  a  game  at  which  one  always  cheats. 

Balzac. 

However    talkative    a    woman    may   be,   love 
teaches  her  silence. 

Rocfubrune. 

The  hand  of  the  poor  is  the  purse  of  God. 

Du  Vair. 

A  pious  man  said  :  "  If  I  ignored  the  existence 
of  God,  I  would  adore  the  sun  and  women." 


Man  is  nothing  but  insincerity,  falsehood,  and 
hypocrisy.     He  does  not  like  to  hear  the  truth, 

and  he  shuns  telling  it. 

Pascal. 

Love  places  a  genius  and  a  fool  on  a  level. 

Cresset. 
The  egotism  of  woman  is  always  for  two. 

Mme.  de  Stael 

Love   is  everything;    love  is  the  great   fact. 
What  matters  the  lover  ?   What  matters  the  flagon, 

provided  one  has  the  intoxication  ? 

A.  de  Musset. 


O  youth  !  thou  often  tearest  thy  wings  against 
the  thorns  of  voluptuousness  ! 

Victor  Hugo. 

It  is  easier  for  a  v/oman  to  defend  her  virtue 
against  men,  than  her  reputation  against  women. 

Rochebrune. 

Beauty  is  often  but  a  splendid   cloak  which 
conceals  the  imperfections  of  the  soul. 

T.  Gautter. 

To  love  is  the  least  of  the  faults  of  a  loving 
woman. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Politeness  is  as  natural  to  delicate  natures  as 
perfume  is  to  flowers. 

De  Finod. 

In  retailing  slander,  we  name  the  originator,  in 
order  to  enjoy  a  pleasure  without  danger. 

Mme.  de  Puisieux. 

We  like  those  to  whom  we  do  good  better  than 
those  who  do  us  good. 

De  Saint-Real. 

Happiness  is  the  shadow  of  man  :  remembrance 
of  it  follows  him ;  hope  of  it  precedes  him. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 


73 

Poetry  has  been  the  guardian  angel  of  human- 
ity in  all  ages. 

Lamartine. 

Utopia!  such  is  the  name  with  which  igno- 
rance, folly,  and  incredulity  have  always  charac- 
terized the  great  conceptions,  discoveries,  enter- 
prises, and  ideas  which  have  illustrated  the  ages, 
and  marked  eras  in  human  progress. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

The  only  thing  that  has  been  taught  success- 
fully to  women  is  to  wear  becomingly  the  fig-leaf 
they  received  from  their  first  mother.  Everything 
that  is  said  and  repeated  for  the  first  eighteen  or 
twenty  years  of  a  woman's  life  is  reduced  to  this : 
"  My  daughter,  take  care  of  your  fig-leaf" ;  '*  your 
fig-leaf  becomes  you  "  ;  "  your  fig-leaf  does  not  be- 
come you." 

Diderot. 

Imperious  Venus  is  less  potent  than  caressing 
Venus. 


Love  is  a  beggar,  who  still  begs  when  one  has 

given  him  everything. 

Rocfuptdre. 

Wrinkles  disfigure  a  woman  less  than  ill  na- 
ture. 

Dufuy. 


74 
To  a  wounded  heart,  silence  and  shadow. 

Balzac. 

Women  should  despise  slander,  and  fear  to 
provoke  it. 

Mile,  de  Scuderi. 

The  life  of  a  woman  is  a  long  dissimulation. 
Candor,  beauty,  freshness,  virginity,  modesty  —  a 
woman  has  each  of  these  but  once.  When  lost, 
she  must  simulate  them  the  rest  of  her  life. 

Rttif  de  la  Bre tonne. 

There  are  two  sorts  of  ruins :  one  is  the  work 
of  time,  the  other  of  men. 

Chateaubriand. 

Men  call  physicians  only  when  they  suffer ; 
women,  when  they  are  merely  afflicted  with  ennui. 

Mme.  de  Genlis. 

Whatever  the  world  may  say,  there  are  some 
mortal  sorrows ;  and  our  lives  ebb  away  less 
through  our  blood  than  through  our  tears. 

P.  Juillerat. 

Reason  has  never  mastered  an  ardent  passion. 

Rignier, 


75 

A  small  number  of  men  and  women  think  for 
the  million ;  through  them  the  million  speak  and 
act. 

.     .  Rousseau. 


Man,  I  tell  you,  is  a  vicious  animal. 

Moliere. 


Certain  importunities  always  please  women — 
even  when  the  importuner  does  not  please. 


That  two  men  may  be  real  friends,  they  must 
have  opposite  opinions,  similar  principles,  and  dif- 
ferent loves  and  hatreds. 

Chateaubriand. 

The  more  honest  a  man  is,  the  less  he  affects 
the  air  of  a  saint. 

Lavater. 


Modesty  is  the  grace  of  the  soul. 

Delille. 


It  is  as  difficult  to  condemn  illicit  loves  by  the 
laws  of  nature,  as  it  is  easy  by  human  laws. 

Montaigne. 

The  best  written  book  is  a  receipt  for  a  pot- 
tage. 

Voltaire. 


76 

Love  works  miracles  every  day  :  such  as  weak- 
ening the  strong,  and  strengthening  the  weak; 
making  fools  of  the  wise,  and  wise  men  of  fools ; 
favoring  the  passions,  destroying  reason,  and,  in  a 
word,  turning  everything  topsy-turvy. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Silence  has  been  given  to  woman  to  better  ex- 
press her  thoughts. 

Desnoyers. 

The  weakness  of  woman  gives  to  some  men  a 
victory  that  their  merit  would  never  gain. 


Human  reason  may  cure  illusions,  but  it  can 
not  cure  sufferings. 

A.  de  M us  set. 

He  who  knows  his  incapacity,  knows  some- 
thing. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Without  love,  it  would  be  sad  to  be  a  man. 

Mnte.  du  Chdtelet. 

It  is  to  teach  us  early  in  life  how  to  think,  and 
to  excite  our  infantile  imagination,  that  prudent 
Nature  has  given  to  women  so  much  chit-chat. 

La  Bruylre. 


77 

A  short  absence  quickens  love,  a  long  absence 
kills  it. 

Mirabeau. 

No  one  wishes  to  be  pitied  on  account  of  his 
errors. 

Vauvenargues. 

How  long  seems  the  night  to  the  sorrow  that 
wakes ! 

Saurin. 

Imagination  is  a  libertine  that  disrobes  every- 
thin^  it  covets. 

A.  Ricard, 


Pity  often  gives  birth  to  love. 

Mtne.  de  Sartory. 


Modesty  is  the  chastity  of  merit,  the  virginity 
of  noble  souls. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

One   S3eks   new   friends   only   when   too  well 
known  by  old  ones. 

Mme.  de  Puisiettx. 

We  are  never  as  happy,  nor  as  unhappy,  as  we 
fancy. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


78 

Paradise  must  be  a  tiresome  place  if  it  is  peo- 
pled only  by  those  saintly  souls  whose  company 
we  so  dread  here  below. 

De  Finod. 

In  witnessing  the  satisfaction  with  which  some 
people  depreciate  us,  one  would  think  that  their 
virtues  fatten  on  our  vices. 

Pichot. 

We  know  the  value  of  a  fortune  when  we  have 
gained  it,  and  that  of  a  friend  when  we  have  lost  it. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

If  we  should  leave  out  of  conversation  scandal, 
gossip,  commonplaces,  fatuity — what  silence ! 

Mme.  Bachi, 

Great  souls  love,  weak  souls  desire. 

Mme.  de  Krudener. 

Most  men  are  like  plants  :  they  possess  prop- 
erties which  chance  discovers. 

De  Saint-Rtal. 

Reflection  increases  the  vigor  of  the  mind,  as 
exercise  does  the  strength  of  the  body. 

Levis. 


79 

Women  enjoy  more  the  pleasure  they  give  than 
the  pleasure  they  feel. 

Rochepldre. 

The  quarrels  of  lovers  are  like  summer  showers 
that  leave  the  country  more  .verdant  and  beautiful. 

Mme,  Necker. 

The  woman  who  does  not  choose  to  love 
should  cut  the  matter  short  at  once,  by  holding 
out  no  hopes  to  her  suitor. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Who  ceases  to  be  a  friend,  never  was  a  friend. 


If  thou  canst  not  suffer — die ! 

A.  de  Musset. 


A  lover  has  all  the  virtues  and  all  the  defects 
that  a  husband  has  not. 

Balzac, 

The  world  is  divided  into  two  armies.  Men 
make  offensive  war,  women  defensive.  Love  ex- 
alts and  excites  the  two  parties.  They  meet  hand 
to  hand.  Love  throws  himself  into  their  midst, 
agitating  his  torch.  But  the  struggle  differs  from 
other  battles :  instead  of  destroying,  it  multiplies 
the  combatants. 

S.  Marfchal. 


8o 


Women   love   always :  when   earth   slips  from 
them,  they  take  refuge  in  heaven. 


Solitude  is  the  voice  of  Nature  that  speaks 
to  us. 

George  Sand. 

There  are  three  things  that  women  throw  away : 
their  time,  their  money,  and  their  health. 

Mme.  Geoffrin. 

God  put  in  man  thought ;  society,  action  ;  Na- 
ture, revery. 

Victor  Hugo. 

There  is  not  a  love,  however  violent  it  may  be, 
to  which  ambition  and  interest  do  not  add  some- 
thing. 

La  Bruylre, 

The  good  is  but  the  beautiful  in  action. 

y.  y.  Roussecu. 

Human  reason  has  so  little  confidence  in  itself 
that  it  always  looks  for  a  precedent  to  justify  its 
decrees. 

De  Fined. 


8i 


It  is  difficult  for  a  woman  to  keep  a  secret: 
and  I  know  more  than  one  man  who  is  a  woman. 

La  Fontaine. 

Would  you  console  yourself  when  you  die  for 
parting  from  those  with  whom  you  liked  to  live  ? 
Think  that  they  will  be  soon  consoled  for  your 
death. 


Paradise  was  made  for  tender  hearts;  hell,  for 
loveless  hearts. 

Voltaire. 

It  is  not  death,  it  is  dying  that  alarms  me. 

Montaigne. 

Women  have  the  genius  of  charity.  A  man  gives 
but  his  gold,  a  woman  adds  to  it  her  sympathy.  A 
small  sum  in  the  hands  of  a  woman  does  more 
good  than  a  hundred  times  as  much  in  the  hands 
of  a  man.  Feminine  charity  renews  every  day  the 
miracle  of  Christ  feeding  a  multitude  with  a  few 
loaves  and  fishes. 

E.  Legouvt. 

Lovers  have  in  their  language  an  infinite  num- 
ber of  words,  in  which  each  syllable  is  a  caress. 

Rockepedre. 
6 


82 


Wine  colors  the  face,  to  prevent  the  appearance 
of  modesty. 

A.  de  Musset. 

It  is  the  merit  of  those  who  praise  that  makes 
the  value  of  the  commendation. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

In  order  that  a  love-letter  may  be  what  it  should 
be,  one  should  begin  it  without  knowing  what  he 
is  going  to  say,  and  end  it  without  knowing  what 
he  has  said. 

Raison. 

We  think  that  not  to  live  happily  is  not  to  live ; 
then,  how  little  we  live  ! 


Before  promising  a  woman  to  love  only  her, 
one  should  have  seen  them  all,  or  should  see  only 
her. 

A.  Dupuy. 

Who  despises  all  that  is  despicable,  is  made  to 
be  impressed  with  all  that  is  grand. 

Lavater. 

The  misanthropist  is  to  be  pitied  when  his  de- 
spair proceeds  from  an  ardent  love  for  the  good, 
the  beautiful,  and  the  true. 

George  Sand. 


83 
Love  renders  women  discreet. 


Bartht. 


There  is  nothing  that  fear  or  hope  does  not 
make  men  believe. 

Vauvenargues. 

Servility  is  to  devotion  what  hypocrisy  is  to 
virtue. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Men  are  so  unjust  that  to  be  unhappy  is  to  be 
wrong. 

Mme.  de  Puisieux. 

How  can  we  expect  another  to  keep  our  secret, 
when  it  is  more  than  we  can  do  ourselves  ? 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Every  man  has  in  his  heart  a  slumbering  hog. 

A.  Priault. 

In  love,  too  much  of  it  is  not  enough. 

Beaumarchais. 

A  man  philosophizes  better  than  a  woman  on 
the  human  heart,  but  she  reads  the  hearts  of  men 
better  than  he. 

.  y.  Rousseau. 


84 

The  affectation  of  virtue  which  characterizes 
this  century  would  be  very  ludicrous,  if  it  were  not 
very  tiresome. 

T.  Gautier. 

Marriage  often  unites  for  life  two  people  who 

scarcely  know  each  other. 

Balzac. 

A  friend  is  a  rare  book,  of  which  but  one  copy 
is  made.  We  read  a  page  of  it  every  day,  till  some 
woman  snatches  it  from  our  hands,  who  sometimes 
peruses  it,  but  more  frequently  tears  it. 


After  money,  ennui  makes  more  marriages  than 

love. 

Romainville. 

Remembrance  !  celestial  present,  shadow  of  the 
blessings  which  are  no  longer !  Thou  art  still  a 
pleasure  that  consoles  us  for  all  those  we  have  lost ! 


Women  give  themselves  to  God  when  the  devil 
wants  nothing  more  to  do  with  them. 

Sophie  Arnould. 

Our  country  is  that  spot  to  which  our  heart  is 
attached. 

Voltaire. 


85 

A  woman  who  writes  commits  two  sins :  she 
increases  the  number  of  books,  and  decreases  the 
number  of  women. 

A.  Karr. 

An  idle  man  in  the  community  is  a  thief. 

J.  J.  Rousseau. 

One  is  more  honest  in  youth,  and  to  the  age 
of  thirty  years,  than  when  one  has  passed  it.  It  is 
only  after  that  age  that  one's  illusions  are  dispelled. 
Until  then,  one  resembles  the  dog  that  defends  the 
dinner  of  his  master  against  other  dogs :  after  this 
period,  he  takes  his  share  of  it  with  the  others. 

Chamfort. 

Bad  examples  may  be  as  profitable  to  virtue  as 
good  ones. 

Montaigne. 

Extreme  concupiscence  may  be  found  under 
an  extreme  austerity. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Codes  are  treacherous  seas  in  which  the  poor 
barks  of  smugglers  perish,  while  big  corsairs  trav- 
erse them  under  full  sail. 

E.  Souvestre. 


86 


We  meet   in  society  many  attractive  women 
whom  we  would  fear  to  make  our  wives. 

D  'Harln-Hle. 

The  world  takes,  from  even  the  most  candid 
heart,  the  freshness  of  faith  and  generosity. 

George  Sand, 


Love  is  a  tyrant  that  spares  no  one. 

Corneille. 


None  deserve  the  name  of  good  who  have  not 
spirit  enough  to  be  bad.  Goodness,  for  the  most 
part,  is  but  indolence,  or  impotence. 

La  Rochefoucauld, 


Life  is  a  carnival. 

Souvestre, 


A  man  who  can  love  deeply  is  never  utterly 
contemptible. 

Balzac. 

The  heart  of  a  woman  never  grows  old  :  when 
it  has  ceased  to  love,  it  has  ceased  to  live. 

Rochepldre. 

It  is  easier  to  be  good  for  everybody,  than  to  be 
good  for  somebody. 

A.  Dumas fils. 


87 

It  is  God  himself  who  speaks  to  us,  when  noble 
thoughts  inspire  us. 


As  the  dawn  precedes  the  sun,  so  acquaintance 
should  precede  love. 

Du  Bosc. 

Contrasts  make  more  intimate  unions  than 
similarity  of  disposition. 

Afme.  de  Grajfigny. 

Without  woman,  man  would  be  rough,  rude, 
solitary,  and  would  ignore  all  the  graces  which 
are  but  the  smiles  of  love.  Woman  weaves  about 
him  the  flowers  of  life,  as  the  vines  of  the  forest 
decorate  the  trunk  of  the  oak  with  their  fragrant 
garlands. 

Chateaubriand. 

How  sweet  it  would  be  to  live  in  society  if  the 
countenance  always  reflected  the  disposition,  if 
decency  were  virtue,  and  if  our  maxims  were  our 
rules  of  action. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

The  beauty  of  a  young  girl  should  speak  to  the 
imagination,  and  not  to  the  senses. 

A.  Karr. 


88 


Features  betray  the  temperament  and  cLarac- 
ter,  but  the  mien  indicates  the  degrees  of  fortune. 

La  Bruylre. 

He  who  lives  but  for  himself  lives  but  for  a 
little  thing. 

Barjaud. 


With  audacity,  one  can  undertake  anything,  but 
one  can  not  accomplish  everything. 

Napoleon  I, 


It  does  not  depend  upon  us  to  avoid  poverty, 
but  it  does  depend  upon  us  to  make  that  poverty 
respected. 

Voltaire. 

Truth  is  the  sun  of  the  intelligence. 

Vauvenargues, 

Ideas  are  a  capital  that  bears  interest  only  in 
the  hands  of  talent. 

Rivarol, 


Study  is  the  apprenticeship  of  life. 

Fleury. 


Jealousy  is  a  secret  avowal  of  our  inferiority. 

Massillon. 


89 

That  happiness  may  enter  the  soul,  we  must 
first  sweep  it  clean  of  all  imaginary  evils. 

Fontenelle. 

A  mediocre  speech  can  never  be  too  short. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 

We  are  no  longer  happy  as  soon  as  we  wish  to 
be  happier. 

Lamotte. 

A  woman  repents  sincerely  of  her  fault,  only 
after  being  weaned  from  her  infatuation  for  the 

one  who  induced  her  to  commit  it. 

Lattna. 

To  live  without  bitterness,  one  must  turn  his 
eyes  toward  the  ludicrous  side  of  the  world,  and 
accustom  himself  to  look  at  men  only  as  jumping- 
jacks,  and  at  society  as  the  board  on  which  they 
jump. 

Chamfort. 

It  is  easier  to  be  a  lover  than  a  husband,  for 
the  same  reason  that  it  is  more  difficult  to  be  witty 
every  day  than  now  and  then. 

Balzac. 

Nature  has  said  to  woman :  Be  fair  if  thou 
canst,  be  virtuous  if  thou  wilt;  but,  considerate, 

thou  must  be. 

Beaumarchais. 


9o 
Constraint  is  the  mother  of  desires. 


D^Argens. 


An  asp  would  render  its  sting  more  venomous 
by  dipping  it  into  the  heart  of  a  coquette. 

Poincelot, 

Most  women  spend  their  lives  in  robbing  the 
old  tree  from  which  Eve  plucked  the  first  fruit. 
And  such  is  the  attraction  of  this  fruit,  that  the 
most  honest  woman  is  not  content  to  die  without 
having  tasted  it. 

O.  Feuillet, 

Every  great  passion  is  but  a  prolonged  hope. 

Feucheres. 

Labor  is  often  the  father  of  pleasure. 

Voltaire. 

Not  to  enjoy  one's  youth,  when  one  is  young,  is 
to  imitate  the  miser  who  starves  beside  his  treasures. 

Mine.  Louise  Colet. 

Hypocrites  are  wicked  :  they  hide  their  defects 
with  so  much  care,  that  their  hearts  are  poisoned 
by  them. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 


A  happy  jest  often  gives  birth  to  another ;  but 
the  child  is  seldom  worth  the  mother. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 


Beauty,  in  woman,  is  power. 

Rotrou. 


Destiny :  sinister  burst  of  laughter ! 

Victor  Hugo. 

There  is  no  man  easier  to  deceive  than  he  who 

hopes ;  for  he  aids  in  his  own  deceit. 

Bossuet. 

We  have  but  one  instant  to  live,  and  we  have 
hopes  for  years. 

Flichier. 

Before  marriage,  woman  is  a  queen ;  after  mar- 
riage, a  subject. 

A  woman  forgives  everything,  but  the  fact  that 
you  do  not  covet  her. 

A.  de  Mussel. 

Delicacy  is  to  affection  what  grace  is  to  beauty. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

A  woman  submits  to  the  yoke  of  opinion,  but 

a  man  rebels. 

De  Fined. 


92 

Love  is  a  bird  of  passage  that  women  await 
with  curiosity  in  youth,  retain  with  pleasure  in  raa- 
turer  years,  and  allow  to  escape  with  regret  when 
old  age  creeps  upon  them. 

A.  Ricard. 

The  more  idle  a  woman's  hand,  the  more  occu- 
pied her  heart. 

.S".  Dubay. 

The  ear  is  the  last  resort  of  chastity :  after  it  is 
expelled  from  the  heart,  it  takes  refuge  there. 

Rttifde  la  Bretonne. 

Modesty  is  sometimes  an  exalted  pride. 

George  Sand. 

If  happiness  could  be  prolonged  from  love  into 
marriage,  we  should  have  paradise  on  earth. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

Words  are  the  key  of  the  heart. 


Love  is  of  all  the  passions  the  strongest,  for  it 
attacks  simultaneously  the  head>  the  heart,  and 
the  senses. 

Voltaire. 


93 
Woman  is  made  of  tongue,  as  fox  of  tail. 

Proverb. 


Prudery  is  the  hypocrisy  of  modesty. 

Massias. 


The  error  of  certain  women  is  to  imagine  that 
to  acquire  distinction,  they  must  imitate  the  man- 
ners of  men. 

J.  de  Maistre. 

Time  is  the  sovereign  physician  of  all  passions. 

Montaigne. 

What  a  cruel  jest  it  would  be  to  condemn  those 
who  continually  boast  of  their  virtues,  to  the  strict 
practice  of  what  they  profess ! 

De  Finod. 

Superstition  excites  storms;  philosophy  ap- 
peases them. 

Voltaire. 


Wounds  given  to  honor  never  heal. 

Corneille. 


Obstacles  usually  stimulate  passion,  but  some- 
times they  kill  it. 

George  Sand. 


94 

Man  is  an  eternal  mystery,  even  to  himself. 
His  own  person  is  a  house  which  he  never  enters, 
and  of  which  he  studies  but  the  outside. 

E.  Souvestre, 

We  are  by  no  means  aware  how  much  we  are 
influenced  by  our  passions. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 
\ 

To  envy  anybody  is  to  confess  ourselves  his 
inferior. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

Do  good  to-day,  since  thou  still  livest. 

Villefrf. 

No  one  is  happy  unless  he  respects  himself. 

y.  y.  Rousseau, 

There  is  in  things  a  resistance  superior  to  ideas, 
but  for  which  the  world  would  not  exist  six  months. 

Lamennais. 

Glory  is  a  shroud  that  posterity  often  tears 
from  the  shoulders  of  those  who  wore  it,  when  living. 

Stranger. 

The  most  dangerous  flattery  is  the  inferiority 
of  those  who  surround  us. 

Mme.  Swctchine. 


95 

It  does  not  take  twenty  years  for  men  to  change 
their  opinions  of  things  which  had  seemed  to  them 

the  truest,  and  most  certain. 

La  Bruylre. 

Philosophy  writes    treatises   on   old    age    and 
friendship ;    Nature  makes    those    on   youth  and 

love. 

D'Alembert. 


O  nude  truth  !  O  true  truth .'  how  difficult 
thou  art  to  find,  and  how  difficult  to  utter ! 

Sainte-Beuve. 

Mankind  is  born  a  fool,  and  is  led  by  knaves. 

Benjamin  Constant. 

Lover,  daughter,  sister,  wife,  mother,  grand- 
mother :  in  those  six  words  lies  what  the  human 
heart  contains  of  the  sweetest,  the  most  ecstatic, 
the  most  sacred,  the  purest,  and  the  most  ineffable. 


The  head  is  always  the  dupe  of  the  heart. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

O  women  !  you  are  very  extraordinary  children ! 

Diderot. 


96 

There  are  different  kinds  of  love,  but  they  have 
all  the  same  aim  :  possession. 

N.  Roqueplan. 

When  all  that  is  fond  in  our  nature  is  most 
thoroughly  awakened,  when  we  feel  most  deeply 
and  tenderly — even  then,  love  is  so  conscious  of  its 
instability  that  we  are  irresistibly  prompted  to  ask  : 
Do  you  love  me  ?  Will  you  love  me  always  ? 

Balzac. 

Women  distrust  men  too  much  in  general,  and 
not  enough  in  particular. 

Commerson. 

If  there  were  no  God,  it  would  be  necessary  to 
invent  one. 

Voltaire. 

To  protect  one's  self  against  the  storms  of  pas- 
sion, marriage  with  a  good  woman  is  a  harbor  in 
the  tempest ;  but  with  a  bad  woman,  it  \  roves  a 

tempest  in  the  harbor. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

We  should  all  be  perfect  if  we  were  neither 
men  nor  women. 


Society  would  be  a  charming  thing  if  we  were 
only  interested  in  one  another. 

Chamfort. 


97 

We  confess  small  faults  in  order  to  insinuate 
that  we  have  no  great  ones. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  great  name  without  merit  is  like  an  epitaph 

on  a  coffin. 

Mme.  de  Puisieux. 

We  wish  others  to  possess,  or  to  acquire,  all 
the  qualities  and  virtues  that  can  serve  our  plea- 
sures or  interests. 

De  Finod. 

One  can  journey  with  delight  in  the  ideal,  but 
one  reposes  well  only  in  the  reality. 

Vieillard 

There  is  pleasure  in  meeting  the  eyes  of  those 
to  whom  we  have  done  good. 

La  Bruyere. 

To  speak,  but  say  nothing,  is  for  three  people 
out  of  four  to  express  all  they  think. 

O.  Commettant. 

One  is  rich  when  one  is  sure  of  the  morrow. 

Chevalier. 

It  is  more  difficult  to  dissimulate  the  senti- 
ments we  have,  than  to  simulate  those  we  have 
not. 

De  Saint-Rial. 


98 

Without  the  ideal,  this  inexhaustible  source  of 
all  progress,  what  would  man  be  ?  and  what  would 
society  be  ? 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Every  man  has  three  characters :  that  which 
he  exhibits,  that  which  he  has,  and  that  which  he 

thinks  he  has. 

A.  Karr. 

Who  takes  an  eel  by  the  tail,  or  a  woman  at 
her  word,  soon  finds  he  holds  nothing. 

Proverb. 

High  positions  are  like  the  summit  of  high, 
steep  rocks  :  eagles  and  reptiles  alone  can  reach 

them. 

Mme.  Necker, 

Women  are  right  to  crave  beauty  at  any  price, 
since  beauty  is  the  only  merit  that  men  do  not 
contest  with  them. 

A.  Dupuy. 

The  soul,  ray  of  Heaven,  invisible  prisoner, 
suffers  in  its  dungeon  cruel  sorrows. 

A.  de  Musset. 

The  profession  of  woman  is  very  hard. 

Mme.  f  Epinay. 


99 

Happy  love  counts  lost  moments. 


Diderot, 


To  see  each  other,  to  profess  to  love  each 
other,  to  prove  it,  to  quarrel,  to  hate,  then  to  sep- 
arate, that  one  may  seek  a  new  love  :  this  is  the 
history  of  a  moment,  and  of  every  day  in  the  com- 
edy of  the  world. 

De  Varennes. 

Men  do  nothing  excellent  but  by  imitation  of 

nature. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Love  is  like  medical  science,  the  art  of  assist- 
ing nature. 

Dr.  Lallemand. 

The  man  who  has  taken  one  wife  deserves  a 
crown  of  patience ;  the  man  who  has  taken  two 
deserves  two  crowns  of  folly. 

Proverb. 

The  cleverest  of  all  devils  is  opportunity. 

Vidand. 

When  a  woman  pronounces  the  name  of  a  man 
but  twice  a  day,  there  may  be  some  doubt  as  to 
the  nature  of  her  sentiments  ;  but  three  times  !  .  .  . 

Balzac. 


IOO 


Love  is  a  canvas  furnished  by  Nature,  and  em- 
broidered by  imagination. 


Voltaire. 

We  live  only  on  debris;  instead  of  despair,  we 
have  indifference  ;  love  itself  is  treated  as  an  an- 
cient illusion.  Where  has  the  soul  of  the  world 

taken  refuge  ? 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

Marriage  is  the  true  road  to  Paradise. 

De  la  Ferriere. 

Few  are  they  who  have  been  spared  by  cal- 
umny. 

George  Sand. 

A  great  name  is  like  an  eternal  epitaph  en- 
graved by  the  admiration  of  men  on  the  road  of 

time. 

E.  Souvestre. 


To  philosophize  is  to  doubt. 

Montaigne. 


Love — sweet  misery  ! 

A.  de  Musset. 


The  scandal  of  the  world  is  what  makes  the 
offense :  it  is  not  sinful  to  sin  in  silence. 

Moliere  ( ' '  Tartufe  "). 


101 


With  women,  the  desire  to  bedeck  themselves 
is  always  the  desire  to  please. 

Marmontel. 


True  modesty  protects  a  woman  better  than 
her  garments. 


Conscience    is   the  most    enlightened   of   all 

philosophers. 

J.  J.  Rousseau. 

Respect  your  wife.     Heap  earth  around  that 
flower,  but  never  drop  any  in  the  chalice. 

A.  de  Mussel. 


To  continue  love  in  marriage  is  a  science.  It 
requires  so  little  to  kill  those  sweet  emotions,  those 
precious  illusions,  which  form  the  charm  of  life ; 
and  it  is  so  difficult  to  maintain  a  man  at  the 
height  on  which  an  exalted  passion  has  placed 
him,  especially  when  that  man  is  one's  husband ! 

Mine.  Reybaud. 

What  is  a  philosopher?  One  who  opposes 
nature  to  law,  reason  to  usage,  conscience  to  opin- 
ion, and  his  judgment  to  error. 

Cluimfort. 


IO2 


We  shall  all  be  perfectly  virtuous  when  there 
is  no  longer  any  flesh  on  our  bones. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

It  is  as  absurd  to  pretend  that  one  can  not 
love  the  same  woman  always,  as  to  pretend  that  a 
good  artist  needs  several  violins  to  execute  a  piece 
of  music. 

Balzac. 

To  give  you  nothing  and  to  make  you  expect 
everything,  to  dawdle  on  the  threshold  of  love, 
while  the  doors  are  closed :  this  is  all  the  science 
of  a  coquette. 

De  Bernard. 

Who  has  daughters  is  always  a  shepherd. 

Proverb. 

Life  is  the  preface  to  the  book  of  eternity. 

Loiseleur. 


Enjoy  what  you  have;    hope   for  what  you 

lack. 

Levis. 

Fortune  is  a  divinity  in  whom  there  are  no  dis- 
believers. 

S£nac  de  Meilhan. 


103 

If  we  had  no  defects,  we  should  not  take  so 
much  pleasure  in  discovering  those  of  others. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  feeble  tremble  before  opinion,  the  foolish 
defy  it,  the  wise  judge  it,  the  skillful  direct  it. 

Afme.  Roland. 

Superstitions,  errors,  and  prejudices  are  cob- 
webs continually  woven  in  shallow  brains. 

De  Finod. 

Good  sense  is  the  master  of  human  life. 

Bossuet. 

There  are  some  places  that  we  admire ;  others 
that  attract  us,  and  where  we  would  like  to  dwell. 

La  Bruylre. 

Hope !  hope,  you  miserable !  There  is  no  in- 
finite mourning,  no  incurable  evils,  no  eternal 
hell! 

Victor  Hugo. 

Women  dress  less  to  be  clothed  than  to  be 
adorned.  When  alone  before  their  mirrors,  they 
think  more  of  men  than  of  themselves. 

Rochebrune. 


104 

Modesty  in  women  has  great  advantages :  it 
enhances  beauty,  and  serves  as  a  veil  to  uncomeli- 
ness. 

Fontenelle. 

The  more  mysterious  love  is,  the  more  strength 
it  has ;  the  more  it  is  secret,  the  more  it  increases ; 
the  more  hidden,  the  plainer  shown. 

Mme.  de  Sartory. 

Love  is  a  religion  of  which  the  great  pontiff  is 
Nature. 


Three  letters !  but  one  syllable !  Still  less,  a 
single  motion  of  the  head,  and  all  is  done !  one  is 
married  for  ever !  I  do  not  know  any  breakneck 
comparable  to  it. 

A.  Ricard. 

To  give  happiness  is  to  deserve  happiness. 

jf.  y.  Rousseau, 

The  ear  is  the  road  to  the  heart;  and  the 
heart  is  the  road  to  the  rest. 

Some  women  need  much  adorning,  as  some 
meat  needs  much  seasoning  to  incite  appetite. 

Rochebrune. 


Catastrophes  dispose  all  strong  and  intelligent 
men  to  philosophize. 

Balzac. 

Thinkers  are  as  scarce  as  gold ;  but  he  whose 
thought  embraces  all  his  subject,  who  pursues  it 
uninterruptedly  and  fearless  of  consequences,  is  a 
diamond  of  enormous  size. 

Lavater. 

Society  is  divided  into  two  classes  :  the  fleecers 
and  the  fleeced. 

Talleyrand. 

To  love  is  to  make  a  compact  with  sorrow. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

She  is  the  most  virtuous  woman  whom  Nature 
has  made  the  most  voluptuous,  and  reason  the 
coldest. 

La  Beaumelle. 

Satire  lies  about  men  of  letters  during  their 
life,  and  eulogy  after  their  death. 

Voltaire. 

Gravity  is  a  stratagem  invented  to  conceal  the 
poverty  of  the  mind. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

To  weep  is  not  always  to  suffer. 

Afme.  de  Genlis. 


The  only  true  language  of  love  is  a  kiss. 

A.  de  Musstt. 

Many  are  esteemed,  only  because  they  are  not 
known. 


Patience  is  the  art  of  hoping. 

Vauvenargues. 

How  many  who,  after  having  achieved  fame 
and  fortune,  recall  with  regret  the  time  when — as- 
cending the  hills  of  life  in  the  sun  of  their  twen- 
tieth year — they  had  nothing  but  courage,  which 
is  the  virtue  of  the  young,  and  hope,  which  is  the 

treasure  of  the  poor  ! 

H.  Murger. 

A  secret  passion  defends  the  heart  of  a  woman 
better  than  her  moral  sense. 

Rttif  de  la  Bretonne. 

If  men  knew  all  that  women  think,  they  would 
be  twenty  times  more  audacious.  If  women  knew 
what  men  thinly  they  would  be  twenty  times  more 
coquettish. 

A.  Karr. 

We  have  three  kinds  of  friends :  those  who 
love  us,  those  who  are  indifferent  to  us,  and  those 
who  hate  us. 

Chamfort, 


There  is  for  adversity  but  one  refuge — the 
tomb. 

De  Stgoyer. 

Sensitive  people  wish  to  be  loved ;  vain  people 
wish  only  to  be  preferred. 

Livis. 

I  like  the  laughter  that  opens  the  lips  and  the 
heart,  that  shows  at  the  same  time  pearls  and  the 
soul. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Love,  of  all  tutors,  is  the  one  that  most  ad- 
vances his  pupils. 

Florian. 


The  life  of  great  geniuses  is  nothing  but  a  sub- 
lime storm. 

George  Sand. 

None  laugh  better,  and  oftener,  than  women 
with  fine  teeth. 


Were  we  perfectly  acquainted  with  our  idol, 
we  should  never  passionately  desire  it. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  father  is  a  banker  given  by  nature. 


io8 

Our  soil  is  formed  only  of  human  dust. 

G.  LegouvS. 

Marriage  is  often  the  denouement  of  comedies 
and  novels;  tragedy  is  often  the  denouement  of 
marriage. 

De  Finod. 

Fate  gives  us  parents ;  choice  gives  us  friends. 

Delille, 

Our  vices  are  like  our  nails :  even  as  we  cut 
them,  they  grow  again. 

T.  Bernard. 

It  is  with  the  mind  that  we  amuse  ourselves, 
but  with  the  heart  we  never  weary. 

A.  Dumas  plre. 

Great  men  undertake  great  things  because  they 
are  great,  and  fools  because  they  think  them  easy. 

Vauvenargues. 

The  great  aureole  encircles  only  the  brow  of 
the  dead. 

Chasles. 

Memory  is  the  granary  of  the  mind,  and  of  ex- 
perience. 

O.  Commettant. 


109 

When   flattery   is  unsuccessful,  it   is   but  the 
fault  of  the  flatterer. 

Uvis. 


Poetry  is  the  sister  of  Sorrow.  Every  man 
that  suffers  and  weeps  is  a  poet ;  every  tear  is  a 
verse,  and  every  heart  a  poem. 

Marc  Andri. 

Prudery  is  the  caricature  of  modesty. 

Lingrte. 


Reason  is  the  last  resort  of  love. 

Helvttius. 


Surely  man  is  a  being  wonderfully  vain,  changs- 
able,  and  vacillating. 

Montaigne. 

Resignation  —  a  virgin  with  golden  tears. 

Ch.  Monselet. 

A  woman  who  pretends  to  laugh  at  love  is  like 
the  child  who  sings  at  night  when  he  is  afraid. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 


Of  all  men,  Adam  was  the  happiest  —  he  had 
no  mother-in-law. 

P.  Par/ait. 


ITO 


We  often  weep  before  we  have  had  time  to 
smile. 

Victor  Hugo. 

The  first  sigh  of  love  is  the  last  of  wisdom. 


There  are  some  sorrows  of  which  we  should 
never  be  consoled. 

Mme.  de  Sevignl, 

It  is  the  violence  of  their  ideas  and  the  blind 
haste  of  their  passion  that  make  men  awkward 
when  with  women.  A  man  who  has  blunted  a  little 
his  sensations,  at  first  studies  to  please  rather  than 
to  be  loved. 

George  Sand. 

To  be  happy,  there  are  certain  sides  of  our 
nature  that  must  be  entirely  stultified. 

Chamfort. 

Moderation  is  the  pleasure  of  the  wise. 

Voltaire. 

Little  girls  are  won  with  dolls — big  ones  with 
oaths. 

A.  Ricard. 

Do  not  take  women  from  the  bedside  of  those 
who  suffer  :  it  is  their  post  of  honor. 

Mme.  CMle  Fie. 


Ill 


One  must  have  a  heart  to  know  how  to  love; 
senses  do  not  suffice.  Temperament  led  by  the 
mind  leads  to  voluptuousness,  but  never  to  love. 

De  Bernis. 

Reason  developed  and  cultivated  will  always 
be  the  most  powerful  curb  to  the  passions  :  this  is 
the  compass  of  all  mankind. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Women,  cats,  and  birds  are  the  creatures  that 
waste  the  most  time  on  their  toilets. 

Ch.  Kodier. 

In  love,  which  is  the  best  rewarded :  respect, 

or  certain  offenses  ? 

A.  de  M us  set. 

Superstition  is  to  religion  what  astrology  is  to 
astronomy  :  a  very  stupid  daughter  of  a  very  wise 
mother. 

Voltaire. 

Ridicule  dishonors  more  than  dishonor. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Qualities  of  a  too  superior  order  render  a  man 
less  adapted  to  society.  One  does  not  go  to  mar- 
ket with  big  lumps  of  gold ;  one  goes  with  silver 
or  small  change. 


112 


Earthly  paradise  :  the  parents  young,  the  chil- 
dren small. 

Victor  Hugo. 

He  who  thinks  he  can  do  without  the  world 
deceives  himself;  but  he  who  thinks  that  the  world 
can  not  do  without  him  is  still  more  in  error. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Kindness  is  the  only  charm  permitted  to  the 
aged :  it  is  the  coquetry  of  white  hair. 

O.  Feuillet. 

Who  is  he  who  dares  say  all  he  thinks  ? 

De  Finod. 

We  must  consider  humanity  as  a  man  who  con- 
tinually grows  old,  and  always  learns. 

L.  Figuier. 

The  worst  of  enemies  are  flatterers,  and  the 

worst  of  flatterers  are  pleasures. 

Bossuet. 

The  selfish,  loving  only  themselves,  are  loved 
by  no  one :  so,  selfishness  is  moral  suicide. 

De  Gaston. 

The  cause  of  our  grandeur  may  become  that 
of  our  ruin. 

Arnault. 


"3 

We  like  morality  when  \ve  are  old,  because  we 
make  of  it  a  merit  for  the  numerous  privations 
which  have  become  for  us  a  necessity. 

Mme.  de  Saint. 

Mortals,  what  errors  are  yours !  You  have  but 
an  instant  to  live,  and  that  instant  is  a  burden. 
Man  implores  Death  and  digs  his  grave. 

A.  L.  Thomas. 

What  has  been  sown  in  the  mind  of  the  youth 
blooms  and  fructifies  in  the  sun  of  riper  years. 

Alfred  Mercier. 

There  is  no  better  excess  in  the  world  than  the 
excess  of  gratitude. 

La  JBruyere. 

Youth  is  a  continual  intoxication,  the  fever  of 
reason. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

One  dies  twice :  to  cease  to  live  is  nothing,  but 
to  cease  to  love  and  to  be  loved  is  an  insupport- 
able death. 

Voltaire. 

One  is  very  near  being  ungrateful  when  one 
weighs  a  service. 

Mme.  de  Flahaut. 
8 


H4 

Friend,  beware  of  fair  maidens !  When  their 
tenderness  begins,  our  servitude  is  near. 

Victor  Hugo. 

Reason  bears  disgrace,  courage  combats  it, 
patience  surmounts  it. 

Mme.  de  Slvignt. 

Of  yore,  they  languished,  they  burned,  they 
died  for  love ;  to-day,  they  chat  about  it,  they  make 
it,  and,  more  often,  they  buy  it. 

Jouy. 

There  are  no  fine  prisons,  nor  ugly  loves. 

Proverb. 

There  are  principles  excellent  for  certain  firm 
and  energetic  characters,  which  would  be  worth 
nothing  for  those  of  an  inferior  order. 

Chamfort. 

One  should  believe  in  marriage  as  in  the  im- 
mortality of  the  soul. 

Balzac. 

Instinct  has  a  lucidness  that  surpasses  reason. 
The  first  rule  for  speaking  well  is  to  think  well. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 


"5 

In  order  to  do  great  things,  we  should  live  as 
though  we  were  never  to  die. 

Vauvenargues. 

It  is  difficult  to  free  fools  from  the  chains  they 
revere. 

Voltaire. 

Woman  has  a  smile  for  every  joy,  and  a  tear 
for  every  sorrow. 

Sainte-Foix. 

A  fool  may  have  his  coat  embroidered,  but  it 
will  always  be  a  fool's  coat. 

Rivarol. 


Bravery  escapes  more  dangers  than  cowardice. 

Sfgur. 

Follies  committed  by  sensible  people,  extrava- 
gances said  by  clever  people,  crimes  committed 
by  honest  people :  this  is  the  history  of  revolutions. 

De  Donald. 

Some  oblige  as  others  insult.  One  is  tempted 
to  ask  reparation  of  them  for  their  services. 

Napoleon  I. 

Misery  is  everywhere,  and  so  is  happiness. 

Boufflers. 


n6 


We  all  have  in  our  hearts  a  secret  place  where 
we  keep,  free  from  the  contact  of  the  world,  our 
sweetest  remembrances. 

De  Fined. 

Speech  has  been  given  to  man  to  disguise  his 
thoughts. 

Talleyrand. 

It  is  not  enough  to  forgive :  one  must  forget. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

Love  is  the  sweetest  and  best  of  moralists. 


In  experiencing  the  ills  of  nature,  one  despises 
death ;  in  learning  the  evils  of  society,  one  de- 
spises life. 

Chamfort. 

It  is  the  enjoying,  and  not  merely  the  possess- 
ing, that  makes  us  happy. 

Montaigne. 

Friendship  that  begins  between  a  man  and 
a  woman  will  soon  change  its  name. 


Sleep,  next  to  death,  is  the  best  thing  in  life. 

T.  Gautier. 


"7 

Many  a  man  who  has  never  been  able  to  man 
age  his  own  fortune,  nor  his  wife,  nor  his  children, 
has  the  stupidity  to  imagine  himself  capable  of 
managing  the  affairs  of  a  nation. 


The  pleasures  of  thought  are  remedies  for  the 

wounds  of  the  heart. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

Beauty  without  modesty  is  like  a  flower  broken 
from  its  stem. 


A  beautiful  woman  with  the  qualities  of  a  no- 
ble man  is  the  most  perfect  thing  in  nature :  we 
find  in  her  all  the  merits  of  both  sexes. 

La  Bruyire. 

Time  sooner  or  later  vanquishes  love ;  friend- 
ship alone  subdues  time. 

Mme.  d '  At  conville. 


Poverty  destroys  pride.     It  is  difficult  for  an 
empty  bag  to  stand  upright. 

A.  Dumas  fils. 

To  know  how  to  be  silent  is  more  difficult,  and 

more  profitable,  than  to  know  how  to  speak.    • 

&§. 


n8 


Women  make  us  lose  paradise,  but  how  fre- 
quently we  find  it  again  in  their  arms  ! 

De  Finod. 

Little  minds  are  vexed  with  trifles. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

From  a  confidence  to  an  indiscretion,  there  is 
only  the  distance  between  the  ear  and  the  tongue. 

Pichot. 

Excess  and  violence  are  the  greatest  outrages 
against  liberty. 

Villemain. 

To  drink  without  thirst,  to  make  love  without 
cessation :  this  is  what  distinguishes  us  from  the 
lower  animals. 

Beaumarchais  ("  Mariage  de  Figaro  "). 

The  absurd  man  is  the  man  who  never  changes. 

Belmontet. 

Honor  immortalizes  more  than  glory. 

Lesguillon. 

In  love,  one  is  cured  of  one  illusion  by  an- 
other. 

The  soul  of  the  poet  is  the  mirror  of  the 
world. 


IIQ 

The  heart  that  had  never  loved  was  the  first 
atheist. 

L.  S.  Merrier. 

We  have  not  always  sufficient  strength  to  em- 
ploy all  our  reason. 

Mme.  de  Grignan, 

We  have  not  always  enough  reason  to  employ 
all  our  strength. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  love  of  woman  is  a  precious  treasure. 
Tenderness  has  no  deeper  source  than  the  heart 
of  woman ;  devotion  no  purer  shrine ;  sacrifice  no 
more  saint-like  abnegation. 

Sainte-Foix. 


Woman  is  the  organ  of  the  devil. 

St.  Bernard. 


Creation  lives,  grows,  and  multiplies :  man  is 
but  a  witness. 

Victor  Hugo. 

He  who  allows  his  happiness  to  depend  too 
much  on  reason,  who  submits  his  pleasures  to  ex- 
amination, and  desires  enjoyments  only  of  the 
most  refined  nature,  too  often  ends  by  not  having 
any  at  all. 

Chamfort. 


120 


The  man  who  can  govern  a  woman  can  govern 

a  nation. 

Balzac, 

A  homely  man  of  merit  is  never  repulsive  :  as 
soon  as  he  is  named,  his  physique  is  forgotten; 
the  mind  passes  through  it  to  see  the  soul. 

Romainville. 

The  best  victory  is  to  vanquish  one's  heart. 

Mme.  de  Saint-Surin. 

Good  actions  are  the  invisible  hinges  of  the 
doors  of  heaven. 

Victor  Hugo. 

A  man  without  patience  is  a  lamp  without 
oil. 

A.  de  Musset. 

I  confess  I  should  be  glad  if  my  pleasures  were 
as  pleasing  to  God  as  they  are  to  me  :  in  that  case, 
I  should  often  find  matter  for  rejoicing. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Coquetry  is  a  continual  lie,  which  renders  a 
woman  more  contemptible  and  more  dangerous 
than  a  courtesan  who  never  lies. 

De  Varennes. 

Nature  needs  little  ;  opinion  exacts  much. 


121 


A  woman  should  never  accept  a  lover  without 
the  consent  of  her  heart,  nor  a  husband  without 
the  consent  of  her  judgment. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 


At  twenty,  every  one  is  republican. 

Lamartine, 


Marriage  is  often  but  ennui  for  two. 

Commerson. 

Love  without  esteem  can  not  reach  far,  nor 
rise  very  high :  it  is  an  angel  with  but  one  wing. 

A.  Dumas  fils. 

The  mistakes  of  woman  result  almost  always 
from  her  faith  in  the  good,  and  her  confidence  in 
the  truth. 

Balzac. 

One  does  not  reason  with  his  heart :  one  either 
breaks  it,  or  yields  to  it. 

Rochepedre. 

It  is  only  the  coward  who  reproaches  as  a  dis- 
honor the  love  a  woman  has  cherished  for  him, 
since  she  can  not  retaliate  by  making  a  dishonor 
of  his  love  for  her. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 


122 


Woman  has  a  smile  for  every  joy,  a  tear  for 
every  sorrow,  a  consolation  for  every  grief,  an  ex- 
cuse for  every  fault,  a  prayer  for  every  misfortune, 
and  encouragement  for  every  hope. 

Sainte-Foix. 

Often  the  world  discovers  a  man's  moral  worth 
only  when  its  injustice  has  nearly  destroyed  him. 

De  Finod. 

True  love  is  rare ;  true  friendship,  still  rarer. 

La  Fontaine. 


Illusion  is  the  first  of  all  pleasures. 

Voltaire. 


Love  is  superior  to  genius. 

A.  de  Musset. 


A  weapon  is  anything  that  can  serve  to  wound  ; 
and  sentiments  are  perhaps  the  most  cruel  weapons 
man  can  employ  to  wound  his  fellow  man. 

Balzac. 

To  correct  the  faults  of  man,  we  address  the 
head ;  to  correct  those  of  woman,  we  address  the 
heart. 

Beauchene. 

All  our  days  travel  toward  death:  the  last  one 
reaches  it. 

Montaigne. 


I23 

As  soon  as  we  have  learned  how  to  live,  we 
must  die. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

Animals  feed,  men  eat ;  but  only  men  of  intel- 
ligence know  how  to  eat. 

Brillat-Saoarin. 

The  science  of  Nature  initiates  the  human 
mind  into  the  secret  thoughts  of  Divinity. 

Mme.  d  'Agoult. 

It  is  difficult  to  repent  of  what  gives  us  pleasure. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Life  is  a  narrow  road  full  of  encumbrances. 

Soulary. 

To  know  how  to  wait  is  the  great  secret  of 
success. 

De  Maistre. 

A  woman  who  plays  with  the  love  of  a  loyal 
man  is  a  curse ;  she  may  close  his  heart  for  ever 
against  all  confidence  in  her  sex. 


Men  are  still  children  at  sixty. 

Audert- 


124 

Everything  that  totters  does  not  fall. 

Montesquieu. 

A  woman  is  more  influenced  by  what  she  di- 
vines'than  by  what  she  is  told. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos, 

Society  is  but  the  contest  of  a  thousand  little 
opposite  interests — an  eternal  contest  between  all 
the  vanities  that  clash  with  each  other,  wounded, 
humiliated  the  one  by  the  other,  and  which  expi- 
ate to-morrow  in  the  disgust  of  a  defeat  the  tri- 
umph of  to-day.  To  live  in  solitude,  to  avoid 
being  crushed  in  the  surging  throng,  is  what  the 
world  calls  being  a  nonentity — to  have  no  exis- 
tence. Poor,  miserable  humanity ! 

Chamfort. 

Love,  that  seldom  gives  us  happiness,  at  least 
makes  us  dream  of  it. 

Senancourt. 


To  hope  is  to  enjoy. 

Saint-Lambert. 


Weak  souls  are  capable  of  only  weak  senti- 
ments ;  strong  souls  of  powerful  sentiments. 

Balzac. 


125 

A  coquette  is  more  occupied  with  the  homage 
we  refuse  her,  than  with  that  we  bestow  upon  her. 

A.  Dupuy. 

Woman  is  the  most  precious  jewel  taken  from 
Nature's  casket,  for  the  ornamentation  and  happi- 
ness of  man. 

Guyard. 

No  one  perfectly  loves  God  who  does  not  per- 
fectly love  some  of  his  creatures. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

We  seldom  confide  a  secret :  it  escapes  us. 

Alfred  Bougeart, 

We  should  be  above  jealousy  when  there  is 
real  cause  for  it. 

La  Rochefoucauld, 

Men  are  the  cause  of  women's  dislike  for  each 

other. 

La  Bruyere. 

There  are  strange  coincidences  in  life :  they 
occur  so  h  propos  that  the  strongest  minds  are  im- 
pressed, and  ask  if  that  mysterious  and  inexorable 
fatality  in  which  the  ancients  balieved,  is  not 
really  the  law  that  governs  the  world. 

Alfred  Mercier, 


126 


To  educate  a  man  is  to  form  an  individual  v/ho 
leaves  nothing  behind  him ;  to  educate  a  woman 
is  to  form  future  generations. 

E.  Laboulaye. 

A  husband  is  always  a  sensible  man :  he  never 
thinks  of  marrying. 

A,  Dumas  plre. 

One  expresses  well  only  the  love  he  does  not 
feel. 

A.  Karr, 

Women  are  women  but  to  become  mothers: 

they  go  to  duty  through  pleasure. 

jfoubert. 

To  render  a  marriage  happy,  the  husband 
should  be  deaf  and  the  woman  blind. 

Proverb. 

In  observing  the  world's  movements,  the  most 
melancholy  man  would  become  merry,  and  Herac- 
litus  would  die  of  laughter. 

Chamfort. 

Self-love  was  born  before  love. 


None  are  -less  eager  to  learn  than  they  who 
know  nothing. 

Suard. 


127 

In  courting  women,  many  dry  wood  for  a  fire 
that  will  not  burn  for  them. 

Balzac. 

Hypocrisy  becomes  a  necessity  for  those  who 
live  scandalously. 

De  Finod. 

There  is  a  power  a  hundred  times  more  power- 
ful than  that  of  bayonets :  it  is  the  power  of  ideas. 

Chevalier. 

Those  who  feign  love  succeed  better  than  those 
who  truly  love. 

Everybody  gives  advice  :  some  listen  to  it ; 
none  apply  it. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

Nothing  has  ever  remained  of  any  revolution, 
but  what  was  ripe  in  the  conscience  of  the  masses. 

Ledru-Rollin. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  men  that  makes  the  repu- 
tation of  women. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

All  the  countries  of  our  globe  have  been  dis- 
covered, all  the  seas  have  been  furrowed  :  nothing 
remains  to  traverse  but  the  heavens. 

Baron  Taylor 


We  often  console  ourselves  for  being  unhappy 
by  a  certain  pleasure  that  we  find  in  appearing  so. 

De  BartlMcmy. 

He  who  has  no  character  is  not  a  man :  he  is 
a  thing. 

Chamfort. 

Circumstances  that  render  us  frail,  only  show 
how  frail  we  are. 

Mme.  de  Choiseul. 

The  life  of  poets — love  and  tears. 

Mme.  Desbordes-  Valmore. 

Trust  your  dog  to  the  end ;  a  woman — till  the 
first  opportunity. 

Proverb. 

All  that  is  enviable  is  not  bought :  love,  genius, 
beauty,  are  divine  gifts  that  the  richest  can  not 

acquire. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

To  love  is  a  rare  happiness  ;  if  it  were  common, 
it  would  be  better  to  be  a  man  than  a  god. 

Mme.  du  Chdtelet. 

A  girl  of  sixteen  accepts   love;   a  woman  of 

thirty  incites  it. 

A.  Ricard. 


I2Q 

Too   much   effort   to   increase  our  happiness 
transforms  it  into  misery. 

jf.  J.  Rousseau. 

It  is  useless  to  have  youth  without  beauty,  or 
beauty  without  youth. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Nature  makes  fools ;  women  make  coxcombs. 


In  jealousy  there  is  usually  more  self-love  than 
love. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  fan  is  indispensable  to  a  woman  who  can  no 
longer  blush. 


There  is  a  woman  at  the  bottom  of  all  great 
things. 

Lamartine. 

If  love  gives  wit  to  fools,  it  undoubtedly  takes 
it  from  wits. 

A.  Karr. 

To  give  birth  to  a  desire,  to  nourish  it,  to  de- 
velop it,  to  increase  it,  to  irritate  it,  to  satisfy  it  : 
this  is  a  whole  poem. 

Balzac. 


130 

Society  is  composed  of  two  great  classes  :  those 
who  have  more  dinners  than  appetite,  and  those 
who  have  more  appetite  than  dinners. 

Chamfort. 

An  old  coquette  has  all  the  defects  of  a  young 
one,  and  none  of  her  charms. 

A.  Dupuy. 

In  love,  as  in  everything  else,  experience  is  a 
physician  who  never  comes  until  after  the  disorder 
is  cured. 

Mme.  de  la  Tour. 

The  mistake  of  many  women  is  to  return  senti- 
ment for  gallantry. 

Jouy. 

Though  vices  repel,  they  do  not  always  sepa- 
rate us  from  those  we  love. 

Mme.  de  Rieux. 

Sorrow  is  a  torch  that  lights  life. 


It  is  not  love  that  ruins  us ;  it  is  the  way  we 
make  it. 

Bussy-Rabutin , 


Sentiment  is  never  lascivious. 

Mirabeau. 


O  youth !  ephemeral  song,  eternal  canticle ! 
The  world  may  end,  the  heavens  fall,  yet  loving 
voices  would  still  find  an  echo  in  the  ruins  of 
the  universe ! 

yules  Janin. 

If  as  much  care  were  taken  to  perpetuate  a  race 
of  fine  men  as  is  done  to  prevent  the  mixture  of 
ignoble  blood  in  horses  and  dogs,  the  genealogy 
of  every  one  would  be  written  on  his  face  and  dis- 
played in  his  manners. 

Voltaire. 

Pleasure  is  the  reward  of  moderation. 


We  finish  by  excusing  our  faults,  but  we  always 
blush  at  our  blunders. 


Politeness  is  the  curb  that  holds  our  worser 
selves  in  check. 

Mme.  de  Bassanville. 

What  man  seeks  in  love  is  woman ;  what  woman 
seeks  in  man  is  love. 

A.  Houssaye. 

Intellectual  progress,  separated  from  moral 
progress,  gives  a  fearful  result :  a  being  possessing 
nothing  but  brains. 

A.  de  Gasparin. 


132 

We  often  hear  bursts  of  laughter  that  sound 
like  sobs. 

De  Finod. 

The  present  is  withered  by  our  wishes  for  the 
future;  we  ask  for  more  air,  more  light,  more  space, 
more  fields,  a  larger  home.  Ah !  does  one  need 
so  much  room  to  love  a  day,  and  then  to  die  ? 

E.  Souvestre. 

Success  resembles  a  generous  wine  which  be- 
gins by  exciting  the  intellectual  faculties,  and  ends 
by  plunging  us  into  a  stupid  intoxication. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

One  is  alone  in  a  crowd  when  one  suffers,  or 
when  one  loves. 

Rochepldre. 

The  world  is  satisfied  with  words :  few  care  to 

dive  beneath  the  surface. 

Pascal. 

All  the  passions  die  with  the  years ;  self-love 

alone  never  dies. 

Voltaire. 

Experience — the  shroud  of  illusions. 

De  Finod. 


133 

Before  wondering  at  the  degradation  of  a  soul, 
one  should  know  what  blows  it  has  received,  and 
what  it  has  suffered  from  its  own  grandeur. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

In  love,  as  in  war,  a  fortress  that  parleys  is 
half  taken. 

Marguerite  de  Valois, 

The  life  of  a  woman  can  be  divided  into  three 
epochs :  in  the  first  she  dreams  of  love,  in  the  sec- 
ond she  experiences  it,  in  the  third  she  regrets  it. 

Saint-Prosper. 

Friendship  is  the  highest  degree  of  perfection 
in  society. 

Montaigne. 

Poetry  is  the  music  of  the  soul. 

Voltaire. 

The  public !  the  public !  How  many  fools 
does  it  take  to  make  up  a  public  ? 

Chamfort. 

To  know  man,  borrow  the  ear  of  the  blind  and 
the  eye  of  the  deaf. 

Lavater. 

Marriage  in  our  days?— I  would  almost  say 
that  it  is  a  rape  by  contract, 

Michelet 


134 

A  woman's  friendship  is,  as  a  rule,  the  legacy 
of  love  or  the  alms  of  indifference. 


To  be  virtuous,  it  does  not  suffice  to  will  it. 

La  Beaumelle. 

Discouragement  is  of  all  ages :  in  youth  it  is  a 
presentiment,  in  old  age  a  remembrance. 

Balzac. 

It  is  strange  that  all  great  men  should  have 
some  little  grain  of  madness  mingled  with  what- 
ever genius  they  possess.  * 

Moliere. 

Society  is  the  book  of  women. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

One  of  the  greatest  of  human  sufferings  is  to 
ask  of  one's  self:  Does  God  exist? 

Erckman  n-  Chatrian. 

In  a  free  country  there  is  much  clamor  with 
little  suffering ;  in  a  despotic  state  there  is  little 
complaint,  but  much  grievance. 

Carnot. 

There  are  some  people  whose  morals  are  only 
in  the  piece :  they  never  make  a  coat. 

jfoubert. 


135 

Prospective  happiness  !  it  is  perhaps  the  only 

real  happiness  in  the  world. 

A.  de  Musset. 

Woman  is  the  nervous  part  of  humanity;  man, 
the  muscular. 


A  woman  whose  great  beauty  eclipses  all  oth- 
ers is  seen  with  as  many  different  eyes  as  there 
are  people  who  look  at  her.  Pretty  women  gaze 
with  envy,  homely  women  with  spite,  old  men  with 
regret,  young  men  with  transport. 

D  '  Argens. 

The  heart  has  reasons  that  reason   does  not 

understand. 

Bossuet. 

Our  illusions  fall  one  after  the  other  like  the 
parings  of  fruit  :  the  fruit  is  experience  ;  its  savor 
may  be  bitter,  still  it  contains  something  that 

strengthens. 

G.  de  NervaL 

Discouragement  is  a  passion,  the  most  danger- 
ous of  all  :  it  takes  from  us  all  our  arms,  all  our 
forces,  and  abandons  us  without  pity  to  the  snares 
of  voluptuousness. 

Alfred  Afercier. 


136 

Hope  and  fear  are  inseparable. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

O  love  !  only  a  few  rays  of  thy  sacred  fire  radi- 
ate in  this  exhausted  world  ! 

Voltaire, 

We  are  for  the  most  part  but  the  contempora- 
ries of  happiness.  It  is  spoken  of  about  us,  but 
we  die  without  having  known  it. 

O.  Firmez, 

How  much  one  must  have  suffered  to  be  weary 
even  of  hope ! 

Pauline. 

The  realities  of  life  are  so  repellent  that  few 
dare  to  look  them  in  the  face,  and  still  fewer  dare 
to  speak  of  them. 

De  Finod, 

Taste  is  the  tact  of  the  mind. 

Boufflers. 

We  easily  hate  those  whom  we  have  given  cause 
to  hate  us. 

Mme.  de  Lussan. 

Dishonesty  is  the  root  of  discussion. 

Roqueplan. 


137 

By  work  of  the  mind  one  secures  the  repose  of 
the  heart. 

Jaucourt. 

Silence  is  the  wit  of  fools,  and  one  of  the  vir- 
tues of  the  wise. 

Bonnard. 

Philosophy,  well  understood,  is  an  excellent 
road  to  heaven. 

Chattel. 

If  you  would  make  a  pair  of  good  shoes,  take 
for  the  sole  the  tongue  of  a  woman :  it  never  wears 
out. 

Alsatian  Provtrb. 

Friendship  is  impossible  between  men  of  high 
social  standing  and  men  in  the  lower  walks  of  life; 
very  difficult  between  a  young  man  and  a  young 
woman ;  between  two  beautiful  women,  it  is  but  a 
poetic  fiction. 


Our  happiness  in  this  world   depends  chiefly 
on  the  affections  we  are  able  to  inspire. 


Mme.  de  Pros/fit. 


Hypocrisy  is  permanent  treason. 


138 

When  women  have  passed  thirty,  the  first  thing 
they  forget  is  their  age ;  when  they  have  attained 
forty,  they  have  entirely  lost  the  remembrance  of  it. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos, 

To  love,  or  not  to  love,  is  not  left  to  our  will. 

Corneille. 

Sow  good  services ;  sweet  remembrances  will 
grow  from  them. 

A/me,  de  Stael. 

A  lover  is  a  man  who  endeavors  to  be  more 
amiable  than  it  is  possible  for  him  to  be :  this  is 
the  reason  why  almost  all  lovers  are  ridiculous. 

Chamfort, 

Some  women  have  in  the  course  of  their  lives 
a  double  engagement  to  sustain,  equally  difficult 
to  break  or  to  dissimulate :  in  one  case  the  con- 
tract is  wanting,  in  the  other  the  heart. 

La  Bruylre. 

A  marriageable  girl  is  a  kind  of  merchandise 
that  can  be  negotiated  at  wholesale,  only  on  con- 
dition that  no  one  takes  a  part  at  retail. 

A,  Karr. 


'39 

Libertines  are  hideous  spiders,  that  often  catch 
pretty  butterflies. 

Diderot. 

There  may  be  as  much  courage  displayed  in 
enduring  with  resignation  the  sufferings  of  the  soul, 
as  in  remaining  firm  under  the  showers  of  shot  from 
a  battery. 

Napoleon  I. 

There  are  persons  who  do  not  know  how  to 
waste  their  time  alone,  and  hence  become  the 
scourge  of  busy  people. 

De  Bohald. 

Man  spends  his  life  in  reasoning  on  the  past, 
in  complaining  of  the  present,  and  in  trembling  for 
the  future. 

Rivarol. 

There  is  no  sweeter  repose  than  that  which  is 
bought  with  labor. 

Chamfort. 

All  religions  are  more  or  less  mixed  with  su- 
perstitions. Man  is  not  reasonable  enough  to  con- 
tent himself  with  a  pure  and  sensible  religion, 

worthy  of  the  Deity. 

Voltaire. 

If  we  think,  we  must  act. 

Desmahis. 


140 

Servitude  debases  man  to  a  degree  that  leads 
him  to  love  it. 

Vauvenargues. 

When  one  runs  after  wit,  he  is  sure  to  catch 
nonsense. 

Montesquieu, 

Politeness  costs  little  and  yields  much. 

Mme.  de  LamOert. 

Whoever  flatters  betrays. 

Massillon. 

Compliment  is  the  high-road  to  the  heart  of 

woman. 

Champcenest, 

Love  is  a  disorder  that  has  three  stages :  de- 
sire, possession,  satiety. 

Slnac  de  Meilhan, 

Some   never   think  of  what  they  say;   others 

never  say  what  they  think. 

De  Fined. 

Life  is  a  dream  ;  death,  an  awakening. 

La  Beaumelle, 

To  marry  is  solemnly  to  submit  one's  liberty 
to  law,  and  one's  welfare  to  caprice. 


141 

What  is  it  that  renders  friendship  between 
women  so  lukewarm  and  of  so  short  duration  ?  It 
is  the  interests  of  love  and  the  jealousy  of  conquest. 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 

Love  is  like  the  moon  :  when  it  does  not  in- 
crease, it  decreases. 


When  we  think  of  the  tenderness,  of  the  solici- 
tude, of  the  protection,  of  the  grace,  of  the  charm, 
of  the  happiness,  or  at  least  of  the  consolation  that 
woman  brings  to  the  life  of  man,  one  is  tempted  to 
speak  to  her  only  with  uncovered  head,  and  bowed 
knee. 

L.  Desnoyers. 

There  is  in  all  of  us  an  obstacle  to  perfect  hap- 
piness, which  is  weariness  of  the  things  we  possess, 
and  the  desire  for  the  things  we  have  not. 

Mme.  de  Rieux. 

There  is  nothing  in  love  but  what  we  imagine. 

Sainte-Beuve. 

Marriage  is  a  romance  until  the  book  is  open. 
True,  the  preface  is  sometimes  amusing,  but  it 
never  lasts  long,  and  it  is  always  deceptive. 

Poincelot, 


142 

There  are  no  unions  that  have  not  their  dark 
days ;  but,  when  we  have  loved  each  other,  we  re- 
member it  always,  and  those  sweet  remembrances, 
that  the  heart  accumulates,  survive  love  like  twi- 
light. 


The  discovery  of  truth  by  slow,  progressive 
meditation  is  talent.  Intuition  of  the  truth,  not 
preceded  by  perceptible  meditation,  is  genius. 

Lavater. 

In  love,  a  woman  is  like  a  lyre  that  surrenders 
its  secrets  only  to  the  hand  that  knows  how  to 
touch  its  strings. 

Balzac* 

There  are  in  the  world  circumstances  which 
give  us  for  masters  men  of  whom  we  would  not 
make  our  valets. 

Mme.  Roland. 

The  loves  of  some  people  are  but  the  result  ot 
good  suppers. 

Chamfort. 

Happiness  may  have  but  one  night,  as  glory 

but  one  day. 

A.  de  Musset. 


Every  woman  carries  in  the  depths  of  her  soul 
a  mysterious  weapon,  instinct — that  virgin  instinct, 
incorruptible,  which  requires  her  neither  to  learn, 
to  reason,  nor  to  know,  which  binds  the  strong 
will  of  man,  dominates  his  sovereign  reason,  and 
pales  our  little  scientific  tapers. 


To  speak  of  love  is  to  make  love. 

Balzac. 


Women  are  rakes  by  nature  and  prudes  from 
necessity. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Love  is  the  most  terrible,  and  also  the  most 
generous,  of  the  passions :  it  is  the  only  one  that 
includes  in  its  dreams  the  happiness  of  some  one 

else. 

A.  Karr. 

To  judge  of  the  real  importance  of  an  individ- 
ual, one  should  think  of  the  effect  his  death  would 
produce. 

Uvis. 

Those  who  always  speak  well  of  women  do  not 
know  them  enough ;  those  who  always  speak  ill  of 
them  do  not  know  them  at  all. 

Pigault-Lebrun. 


144 

I  admire  her  who  resists ;  I  pity  her  who  sue* 
cumbs ;  I  hate  her  who  condemns. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

Woman  is  an  overgrown  child  that  one  amuses 
with  toys,  intoxicates  with  flattery,  and  seduces 
with  promises. 

Mme.  Sophie  Arnould. 

Pride  is  the  consciousness  of  what  one  is,  with- 
out contempt  for  others. 

Stnac  de  Meilhan. 

It  is  not  so  much  for  love  of  the  world  that  we 
seek  it,  as  to  escape  our  own  companionship. 


Mediocre  people  fear  exaltation  for  the  harm 
that  may  result  from  it ;  though  it  is  something 
that  can  not  be  communicated  to  them. 

Mme.  de  Krudener. 

Distrust  him  who  talks  much  of  his  honesty. 

Dussaulx. 

It  is  rare  that,  after  having  given  the  key  of 
her  heart,  a  woman  does  not  change  the  lock  the 
day  after. 

Sainte-Beuve. 


145 

Conscience  is  a  sacred  sanctuary,  where  God 
alone  has  the  right  to  enter  as  judge. 

Lamennais. 

The  heart  of  youth  is  reached  through  the 
senses;  the  senses  of  age  are  reached  through 

the  heart. 

Rttifde  la  Bretonne. 

Women  go  further  in  love  than  most  men,  but 
men  go  further  in  friendship  than  women. 

La  Bruylre. 

Indolence  is  the  sleep  of  the  mind. 

Vauvenargues. 

There  are  only  two  beautiful  things  in  the  world 
— women  and  roses ;  and  only  two  sweet  things — 
women  and  melons. 

Malhcrbe. 

Coquetry  is  a  net  laid  by  the  vanity  of  woman 
to  ensnare  that  of  man. 

Bruis. 

In  love,  one  who  ceases  to  be  rich  begins  to 
be  poor. 

C/iamfort. 

Society  depends  upon  women.  The  nations 
who  confine  them  are  unsociable. 

Voltaire. 

10 


146 


The  human  soul  needs  to  be  mated  to  develop 
all  its  value. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Man  can  not  live  exclusively  by  intelligence 
and  self-love. 

Alfred  Merrier. 

To  remember — to  forget :  alas !  this  is  what 
makes  us  young  or  old. 

A.  de  Musset. 

One  loves  wholly  but  once — the  first  time  :  loves 
that  follow  are  less  involuntary. 

La  Bruytre. 

What  the  devil  can  not,  women  do. 

Proverb. 

Don  Quixote  is,  after  all,  the  defender  of  the 
oppressed,  the  champion  of  lost  causes,  and  the 
man  of  noble  aberrations.  Woe  to  the  centuries 
without  Don  Quixotes  !  Nothing  remains  to  them 
but  Sancho  Panzas. 

A.  de  Caspar  in. 

It  is  never  the  opinions  of  others  that  displease 
us,  but  the  pertinacity  they  display  in  obtruding 
them  upon  us. 

Joubert. 


147 
Taste  is  the  microscope  of  the  judgment. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Without  woman  the  two  extremities  of  life 
would  be  without  succor,  and  the  middle  without 
pleasure. 


"  I  am  young ;  I  have  passed  but  the  half  of 
the  road  of  life,  and,  already  weary,  I  turn  and 
look  back ! " 

A.  de  Musset. 

It  is  chance  that  makes  brothers,  but  hearts 
that  make  friends. 


Women  are  extremists :  they  are  either  better 
or  worse  than  men. 

La  Bruytre. 

There  are  more  fools  than  sages ;  and  among 
the  sages,  there  is  more  folly  than  wisdom. 

Chamfort. 

There  are  no  pleasures  where  women  are  not ; 
and  with  the  French,  champagne  itself  has  no 
flavor,  unless  served  by  the  hand  of  beauty. 

Romieu. 


148 


Possession  is  the  touchstone  of  love :  true  love 
finds  new  ardor,  frivolous  love  extinguishes  itself 

in  it. 

Panage. 


Thought  is  the  slave  of  the  heart. 

De  Finod. 


A  woman  is  never  displeased  if  we  please  sev- 
eral other  women,  provided  she  is  preferred  :  it  is 
so  many  more  triumphs  for  her. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

However  powerful  one  may  be,  whether  one 
laughs  or  weeps,  none  can  make  thee  speak,  none 
can  open  thy  hand  before  the  time,  O  mute  phan- 
tom, our  shadow  !  specter  always  masked,  ever  at 
our  side,  called  To-morrow  ! 

Victor  Hugo. 

Why  should  we  complain,  since  we  are  so  little 
moved  by  the  complaints  of  others  ? 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

I  esteem  the  world  as  much  as  I  can,  and  still 
I  esteem  it  but  little. 

Chamfort, 

Temperance  is  the  love  of  health — or  the  ina- 
bility to  eat  or  drink  much. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


149 

Vanity  is   the  only  intellectual    enjoyment  of 
many  people. 


Beauty  is  the  first  gift  Nature  gives  to  woman, 
and  the  first  she  takes  from  her. 

Meri. 

Since  Cupid  is  represented  with  a  torch  in  his 
hand,  why  did  they  place  virtue  on  a  barrel  of 
gunpowder? 

Livis. 

A  woman  at  middle  age  retains  nothing  of  the 
pettiness  of  youth  ;  she  is  a  friend  who  gives  you  all 
the  feminine  delicacies,  who  displays  all  the  graces, 
all  the  prepossessions  which  Nature  has  given  to 
woman  to  please  man,  but  who  no  longer  sells  these 
qualities.  She  is  hateful  or  lovable,  according  to 
her  pretensions  to  youth,  whether  they  exist  under 
the  epidermis  or  whether  they  are  dead. 

Balzac. 

The  only  way  to  please  God  is  to  follow  tha 
good  inclinations  of  our  nature. 

Alfred  Merrier. 

One  of  the  most  effectual  ways  of  pleasing  and 
of  making  one's  self  loved  is  to  be  cheerful :  joy 
softens  more  hearts  than  tears. 

Mme.  de  Sartory. 


All  the  evil  that  women  have  done  to  us  comes 
from  us,  and  all  the  good  they  have  done  to  us 
comes  from  them. 

Martin. 

We  always  find  what  we  do  not  seek. 

Proverb. 

Love  is  a  fever,  of  which  the  delirium  is  to 
believe  itself  eternal. 

Mme.  Cottin.    . 

It  is  a  common  vanity  of  the  aged  to  believe 
that  they  have  always  been  more  exemplary  than 

those  who  have  come  after  them. 

A.  de  Musset. 

The  friendship  of  a  man  is  often  a  support ; 
that  of  a  woman  is  always  a  consolation. 

Rochepldre. 

There  are  more  people  who  wish  to  be  loved 
than  there  are  who  are  willing  to  love. 

Chamfort. 

Of  all  ruins,  the  ruin  of  man  is  the  saddest  to 
contemplate. 

T.  Gautier. 

A  woman  can  be  held  by  no  stronger  tie  than 
the  knowledge  that  she  is  loved. 

Mme.  de  Motteville. 


One  should  choose  for  a  wife  only  such  a  wo- 
man as  he  would  choose  for  a  friend,  were  she  a 
man. 

Joubert. 

It  is  a  terrible  thing  to  be  obliged  to  love  by 
contract. 

Bussy-Rabutin . 

The  feeble  howl  with  the  wolves,  bray  with  the 
asses,  and  bleat  with  the  sheep. 

Mme.  Roland. 

To  a  woman  of  delicate  feeling,  the  most  per- 
suasive declaration  of  love  is  the  embarrassment 
of  an  intellectual  man. 

Latino. 

To  abstain  from  pleasure  for  a  time,  in  order 
the  better  to  enjoy  in  the  future,  is  the  philosophy 
of  the  sage ;  it  is  the  epicureanism  of  reason. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 

To   judge  a  country  one  does  not  know  the 
language  of,  is  like  judging  a  book  from  the  bind- 
ing- 
Man  may  go  from  aversion  to  love ;  but,  when 
he  has  begun  by  loving,  and  has  reached  aversion, 

he  never  returns  to  love. 

Balzac. 


The  soul  and  the  body  are  enemies. 

A.  de  Musset. 

God  took  his  softest  clay  and  his  purest  colors, 
and  made  a  fragile  jewel,  mysterious  and  caress- 
ing —  the  finger  of  woman  ;  then  he  fell  asleep. 
The  devil  awoke,  and  at  the  end  of  that  rosy  fin- 
ger put  —  a  nail. 

Victor  Hurt. 

Marriage  has  its  unknown  great  men,  as  war 
has  its  Napoleons,  poetry  its  Cheniers,  and  phi- 
losophy its  Descartes. 

Balzac. 

The  art  of  praising  caused  the  art  of  pleasing. 

Voltaire. 

Death  is  a  passage  :  the  more  rapidly  it  is 
crossed,  the  better. 


Love  dies  of  satiety,  and  is  buried  in  oblivion. 

La  Bruylre, 

A  prison  is  never  narrow  when  the  imagination 
can  range  in  it  at  will. 


The  greatest  art  of  an  able  man  is  to   know 
how  to  conceal  his  ability. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


153 

Philosophers  and  men  of  letters  have  done 
more  for  mankind  than  Orpheus,  Hercules,  or  The- 
seus; for  it  is  more  meritorious  and  more  difficult 
to  wean  men  from  their  prejudices  than  to  civilize 
the  barbarian :  It  is  harder  to  correct  than  to  in- 
struct. 

Voltaire. 

As  long  as  the  heart  preserves  desire,  the  mind 
preserves  illusion. 

Chateaubriand. 

To  be  loved  is  to  receive  the  greatest  of  all 

compliments. 

Mme.  Necker- 

The  physical  plagues  and  the  calamities  of 
human  nature  have  rendered  society  necessary. 
Society  has  added  to  the  evils  of  nature ;  the  im- 
perfections of  society  have  created  the  necessity 
for  government,  and  government  adds  still  further 
to  the  woes  of  society :  this  is  the  whole  history  of 
humanity. 

Chamfort. 

The  unknown !  it  is  the  field  in  which  are 
sown  our  dreams,  where  we  see  them  germinate, 
grow,  and  bloom.  Who  would  live  without  the 
benefit  of  the  incertitude  granted  to  our  miseries ! 

E.  Souvestre. 


154 

The  woman  we  love  most  is  often  the  one  to 
whom  we  express  it  the  least. 

Beauchene. 

In  ill-matched  marriages,  the  fault  is  less  the 
woman's  than  the  man's,  as  the  choice  depended 
on  her  the  least. 

Mme.  de  Jfteux. 

Every  vice  has  a  cloak,  and  creeps  in  under 
the  name  of  virtue. 


Possession  makes  tyrants  of  some  men  whom 
desire  made  slaves. 

Brignicourt. 

A  woman  often  thinks  she  regrets  the  lover, 
when  she  only  regrets  the  love. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Bachelors  are  providential  beings :  God  cre- 
ated them  for  the  consolation  of  widows  and  the 
hope  of  maids. 

De  Finod. 

Let  us  love!  let  us  enjoy  the  fugitive  hour! 
Man  has  no  harbor,  time  has  no  shores :  it  runs, 
and  we  pass ! 

Lamartme. 


When  one  seeks  the  cause  of  the  successes  of 
great  generals,  one  is  astonished  to  find  that  they 
did  everything  necessary  to  insure  them. 

Napoleon  I.    • 

War  is  the  tribunal  of  nations :  victories  and 
defeats  are  its  decrees. 

Rivarol, 

Would  you  know  the  qualities  a  man  lacks, 
examine  those  of  which  he  boasts. 

Sigur. 

There  is  more  poverty  in  the  human  heart  than 
misery  in  life. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

Laws  should  never  be  in  contradiction  to 
usages ;  for,  if  the  usages  are  good,  the  laws  are 
valueless. 

Voltaire. 

Reading  is  useless  to  some  people  :  ideas  pass 
through  their  heads  without  remaining. 

C.  Jordan. 

Repentance  is  a  second  innocence. 

De  Bonald, 

Glory  can  be  for  a  woman  but  the  brilliant 
mourning  of  happiness. 

Jfme.  de  Stael. 


Marriage  is  a  tie  that  hope  embellishes,  that 
happiness  preserves,  and  that  adversity  fortifies. 

Alibert. 

In  the  beginning,  passions  obey ;  later,  they 
command. 

Mme.  de  Lambert, 

A  prude  exhibits  her  virtue  in  word  and  man- 
ner; a  virtuous  woman  shows  hers  in  her  con- 
duct. 

La  Bruyere. 

Our  century  leans  neither  toward  evil  nor  to- 
ward good  :  it  goes  toward  mediocrity. 

A.  de  Gasparin. 

Politeness  has  left  our  manners,  to  take  refuge 
in  our  clothes. 

Mme.  de  Bassanville. 

It  is  because  honesty  will  soon  be  scarce  that 
we  must  use  it  to  deceive  the  deceivers. 


Pleasures  are  sins  :  we  regret  to  offend  God ; 
but,  then,  pleasures  please  us. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Infidelities  rupture  love;  little  faults  wear  it 
out. 

Bussy-Rabutin. 


The  offender  never  pardons. 

Proverb. 


I  have  remarked  that  those  who  love  women 
most,  and  are  most  tender  in  their  intercourse 
with  them,  are  most  inclined  to  speak  ill  of  them, 
as  if  they  could  not  forgive  them  for  not  being  as 
irreproachable  as  they  wish  them  to  be 

T.  Gautier. 


To  enjoy  is  not  to  corrupt. 

Mirabeau, 


It  is  in  the  eyes  that  the  language  of  love  is 
written. 

Mme.  Cottin. 

Reason  !  I  have  lost  it ;  and,  were  it  to  be  re- 
turned to  me,  I  would  fly  from  it ! 

A.  de  Mussst. 

Politeness  is  a  wreath  of  flowers  that  adorns 
the  world. 

Mine,  de  Bassanville. 

A  brute  always  imposes  silence  on  the  delicate. 

A.  de  Gasparin. 

There  are  glances  that  have  more  wit  than  the 
most  subtile  speech. 


158 

Women  are  the  happiest  beings  of  the  creation ! 
in  compensation  for  our  services  they  reward  us 
with  a  happiness  of  which  they  retain  more  than 
half. 

De  Varennes, 

Repentance  is  not  so  much  remorse  for  what 
we  have  done,  as  the  fear  of  consequences. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

One  sneers  at  curls  when  one  has  no  more  hair ; 
one  slanders  apples  when  one  has  no  more  teeth. 

A.  Karr. 

A  man  explodes  with  indignation  when  a  wo- 
man ceases  to  love  him,  yet  he  scon  finds  consola- 
tion ;  a  woman  is  less  demonstrative  when  deserted, 
and  remains  longer  inconsolable. 

Wounds  of  the  heart !  your  traces  are  bitter, 
slow  to  heal,  and  always  ready  to  reopen. 

A.  de  Musset. 

When  one  has  been  tormented  and  fatigued  by 
his  sensitiveness,  he  learns  that  he  must  live  from 
day  to  day,  forget  all  that  is  possible,  and  efface 
his  life  from  memory  as  it  passes, 

C/iam/ort. 


Love  is  a  duel  with  pins. 

How  few  friendships  would  be  lasting  if  we 
knew  what  our  best  friends  say  of  us  in  our  ab- 
sence. 

Pascal. 

Voltaire  inscribed  on  a  statue  of  Love  :  "  Who- 
ever thou  art,  behold  thy  master !  He  rules  thee, 
or  has  ruled  thee,  or  will  rule  thee  !  " 


A  woman  forgives  the  audacity  which  her  beauty 

has  prompted  us  to  be  guilty  of. 

Lesage. 

All  men  are  fools :  to  escape  seeing  one,  one 
would  be  compelled  to  shut  himself  in  his  room, 

and  break  his  mirror. 

De  Sade. 

A  coquette  is  a  woman  who  places  her  honor 
in  a  lottery :  ninety-nine  chances  to  one  that  she 
will  lose  it. 


The  virtue  of  widows  is  a  laborious  virtue : 
they  have  to  combat  constantly  with  the  remem- 
brance of  past  bliss. 

St.  Jerome. 


i6o 


Women  like  audacity :  when  one  astounds  them 
he  interests  them ;  and  when  one  interests  them, 
he  is  very  sure  to  please  them. 

This  century  boasts  of  progress !  Have  they 
invented  a  new  mortal  sin  ?  Unfortunately  there 
are  but  seven,  as"  before — the  number  of  the  daily 
falls  of  a  saint,  which  is  very  little. 

T.  Gautier. 

The  society  of  women  endangers  men's  morals 
and  refines  their  manners. 

Montesquieu. 

A  bachelor  seeks  a  wife  to  avoid  solitude ;  a 
married  man  seeks  society  to  avoid  the  tcte-ii-tete. 

De  Varennes. 


Wrinkles  are  the  grave  of  love. 

Sarrasin. 


We  may  wager  that  any  idea  of  the  public,  or 
any  general  opinion,  is  a  folly,  since  it  has  received 
the  approbation  of  a  majority  of  the  people. 

Chamfort, 

The  reason  why  so  few  women  are  touched  by 
friendship  is,  that  they  find  it  dull  when  they  have 
experienced  love. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


Women  sometimes  deceive  the  lover — never 
the  friend. 

L.  S.  Mercier. 

He  who  first  invented  raiment,  perhaps  invent- 
ed love. 

Sigur. 

It  is  often  shorter  and  better  to  yield  to  others 
than  to  endeavor  to  compel  others  to  adjust  them- 
selves to  us. 

La  Bruylre. 

Whoever  blushes  is  already  guilty  :  true  inno- 
cence is  ashamed  of  nothing. 

y.  J,  Rousseau. 

A  woman  laughs  when  she  can,  and  weeps 
when  she  will. 

Proverb. 

Conjugal  Love  should  never  put  on  or  take  off 

his  bandage  but  at  an  opportune  time. 

Balsac. 

Love  is  like  the  rose :  so  sweet,  that  one  always 
tries  to  gather  it  in  spite  of  the  thorns. 

Which  is  the  best  religion  ?     The  most  tolerant. 

E.  de  Girardin. 
II 


162 


One  can  stop  when  he  ascends,  but  not  when 
he  descends. 

Napoleon  I. 

He  who  thinks  himself  good  for  everything  is 
often  good  for  nothing. 

Picard. 

Idleness  is  the  door  to  all  vices. 

Malebranche. 

Why  do  we  dream  in  our  sleep  if  we  have  no 
soul  ?  and,  if  we  have  one,  how  is  it  that  dreams 

are  so  incoherent  and  extravagant  ? 

Voltaire. 

Generosity  is  but  the  pity  of  noble  souls. 

Chamfort. 

Inclination  and  interest  determine  the  will. 

Talleyrand. 

Extremes  in  everything  is  a  characteristic  of 

woman. 

De  Goncourt. 

I  have  tormented  the  present  with  the  preoc- 
cupations of  the  future ;  I  have  put  my  judgment 
in  the  place  of  Providence,  and  the  happy  child 
has  been  transformed  into  a  care-worn  man ! 

E.  Souvestre. 


163 

The  greatest  satisfaction  a  woman  can  feel  is 
to  know  that  a  man  whom  many  other  women  love 
loves  her  alone. 


To  speak  of  love  begets  love. 

Pascal. 


True  philosophy  raises  us  above  grandeur,  but 
nothing  can  raise  us  above  the  ennui  which  it 

causes. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

Love  pleases  more  than  marriage,  for  the  rea- 
son that  romance  is  more  interesting  than  h'~,tory. 

Chamfort. 

A  coquette  is  to  a  man  what  a  toy  is  to  a 
child  :  as  long  as  it  pleases  him,  he  keeps  it ;  when 
it  ceases  to  please  him,  he  discards  it. 

One  must  be  a  woman  to  know  how  to  revenge 

Mme.  de  Rieux. 

Many  wish  to  be  pious,  but  none  to  be  hum- 
ble. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Books  follow  manners ;  manners  do  not  follow 
books. 

T.  Gautier. 


As  soon  as  women  are  ours,  we  are  no  longer 
theirs. 

Montaigne. 

Convictions  that  remain  silent  are  neither  sin- 
cere nor  profound. 


A  woman  who  is  guided  by  the  head,  and  not 
by  the  heart,  is  a  social  pestilence :  she  has  all  the 
defects  of  the  passionate  and  affectionate  woman, 
with  none  of  her  compensations ;  she  is  without 
pity,  without  love,  without  virtue,  without  sex. 

Balzac. 

The  true  and  the  false  speak  the  same  lan- 
guage. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Thought  is  the  lightning  of  the  soul. 

Mme.  de  Bassanville. 

Old  men  are  always  jealous :  they  are  like  the 
greedy  child  who  wants  the  cake  it  can  not  eat. 

A.  Ricard. 

Who  of  us  has  not  regretted  that  age  when 
laughter  was  ever  on  the  lips  ! 

J.  y.  Rousseau. 


'65 

In  life,  woman  must  wait  until  she  is  asked  to 
love ;  as  in  a  salon  she  waits  for  an  invitation  to 

dance. 

A.  Karr. 

In  the  elevated  order  of  ideas,  the  life  of  man 

is  glory  ;  the  life  of  woman  is  love. 

Balzac. 

Suitors  of  a  wealthy  girl  seldom  seek  for  proof 
of  her  past  virtue. 


However  virtuous  a  woman  may  be,  a  compli- 
ment on  her  virtue  is  what  gives  her  the  least 
pleasure. 

Prince  de  Ligne. 

Love,  pleasure,  and  inconstancy  are  but  the 
consequences  of  a  desire  to  know  the  truth. 

Duclos. 

Life  is   a  combat,  of  which  the   palm   is  in 

heaven. 

Delavigne. 

Vanity  ruins  more  women  than  love. 

Mme.  du  Demand. 

O  oblivion  !  oblivion  !  what  a  pillow  for  the 
exhausted  traveler ! 

Ducts. 


166 


If  a  fox  is  cunning,  a  woman  in  love  is  a  thou- 
sand times  more  so. 

Proverb. 

Time  is  a  great  physician  :  he  brings  us  death. 

We  are  finite  beings :  there  can  be  no  infinite 
happiness  for  us.  The  soul  that  dreams  it  and 

pursues  it  will  embrace  but  a  shadow. 

Balzac. 

When  women  can  not  be  revenged,  they  do  as 
children  do :  they  cry. 

Cardan. 

In  condemning  the  vanity  of  women,  men  com- 
plain of  the  fire  they  themselves  have  kindled. 

Lingrde. 

It  is  with  happiness  as  with  watches  :  the  less 

complicated,  the  less  easily  deranged. 

Chamfort. 

There  are  several  ways  to  speak :  to  speak 
well,  to  speak  easily,  to  speak  justly,  and  to  speak 
at  the  right  moment. 

La  Bruylre. 

We  please  oftener  by  our  defects  than  by  our 
virtues. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


I67 

Life  has  surprises  at  every  age. 


Alj'red  Afercier. 


Young,  one  is  rich  in  all  the  future  that  he 
dreams ;  old,  one  is  poor  in  all  the  past  he  regrets. 

Rochepldre. 

Women  like  balls  and  assemblies,  as  a  hunter 
likes  a  place  where  game  abounds. 

Lattna.  • 

Life  would  be  easy  enough  if  we  were  not  con- 
tinually exerting  ourselves  to  forge  new  chains, 
and  invent  absurd  formalities  which  make  it  a 
burden. 


A  woman,  when  she  has  passed  forty,  becomes 
an  illegible  scrawl ;  only  an  old  woman  is  capable 

of  divining  old  women. 

Balzac. 

Men  would  not  live  long  in   society  if  they 

were  not  the  dupes  of  each  other. 

La  Bruytre. 

He  who  loves  little  dares  little. 

Proverb. 

To  place  wit  above  sense,  is  to  place  superflu- 
ity above  utility. 

A/me,  de  Maintenon. 


i68 


Women  speak  easily  of  platonic  love;  but, 
while  they  appear  to  esteem  it  highly,  there  is  not 
a  single  ribbon  of  their  toilette  that  does  not  drive 
platonism  from  our  hearts. 

A.  Ricard. 


There  is  a  greater  distance  between  love  and 
indifference  than  between  hatred  and  love. 

Bussy-Rabutin. 


Civilization  has  its  cup  of  bitterness. 

F.  de  Conches, 

The  more  women  have  risked,  the  more  they 

are  ready  to  sacrifice. 

Duc/os. 

To  make  love  only  when  signing  the  marriage 
certificate,  is  to  take  romance  by  the  tail. 

Moltire. 

Nature  has  given  to  women  fortitude  enough 
to  resist  a  certain  time,  but  not  enough  to  resist 
completely  the  inclination  which  they  cherish. 

Dor  at. 

When  love  increases,  prudence  decreases. 

La  Rochefoucauld, 


169 

An  honorable  name  or  a  good  reputation  is  an 
excellent  protection  against  wrong-doing :  we  fear 
to  compromise  it  more  through  vanity  than  virtue. 


The  difference  between  love  and  possession  is, 
that  one  is  an  infinite  desire,  the  other  a  satisfied 
desire. 

Saint-Prosper. 

All  passions  are  good  when  one  masters  them ; 
all  are  bad  when  one  is  a  slave  to  them. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

The  destiny  of  women  is  to  please,  to  be  ami- 
able, and  to  be  loved.  Those  who  do  not  love 
them  are  still  more  in  the  wrong  than  those  who 

love  them  too  much. 

Rochebrune. 

In  love,  what  we  take  has  greater  price  than 
what  is  given. 

y.  Petit-Serin, 

One  looks  at  a  lover ;  one  does  not  examine 
him. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Travel  improves  superior  wine  and  spoils  the 
poor :  it  is  the  same  with  the  brain. 


Glow-worms  are  the  image  of  women :  when 
they  are  in  the  dark,  one  is  struck  with  their  bril- 
liancy ;  as  soon  as  they  appear  in  the  broad  light 
of  the  world,  one  sees  them  in  their  true  colors, 

with  all  their  defects. 

Mme.  Necker. 

A  woman  of  honor  should  never  suspect  an- 
other of  things  she  would  not  do  herself. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

History  is  only  a  record  of  crimes  and  mis- 
fortunes. 

Voltaire. 

At  a  ball,  men  are  the  timid  sex,  and  also  the 
feebler  sex ;  for  they  are  always  the  first  to  be 
fatigued. 

A.  Karr. 

False  modesty  is  the  most  reputable  of  all  im- 
postures. 

Chamfort. 

Among  all  animals,  from  man  to  the  dog,  the 
heart  of  a  mother  is  always  a  sublime  thing. 

A.  Dumas  per*. 

We  never  forget  what  we  learn  with  pleasure. 

Alfred  Mercier. 


Simple  nature,  however  defective,  is  better  than 
the  least  objectionable  affectation  ;  and,  defects  for 
defects,  those  which  are  natural  are  more  bearable 
than  affected  virtues. 

Saint-Evremond. 

How  many  things  have  we  esteemed  that  we 
despise,  and  how  many  joys  have  resulted  in  afflic- 
tions ! 


Man  should   place  himself  above  prejudices, 

and  woman  should  submit  to  them. 

Mme.  Necker. 

Better  is  an  error  that  makes  us  happy  than  a 
truth  that  plunges  us  into  despair. 


Women  never  weep  more  bitterly  than  when 
they  weep  with  spite. 

A.  Ricard. 

Love  in  marriage  would  be  the  realization  of  a 
beautiful  dream,  if  marriage  were  not  too  often  the 
end  of  it. 

A.  Karr. 

Women  have  the  same  desires  as  men,  but  do 
not  have  the  same  right  to  express  them. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 


172 

As  yet,  no  navigator  has  traced  lines  of  latitude 

and  longitude  on  the  conjugal  sea. 

Balzac, 

Contempt  should  be  the  best  concealed  of  our 
sentiments. 

Coquettes  are   like  hunters  who   are  fond  of 
hunting,  but  do  not  eat  the  game. 

Woman  is  more  constant  in   hatred  than  in 
love. 


In  love,  it  is  only  the  commencement  that 
charms.  I  am  not  surprised  that  one  finds  plea- 
sure in  frequently  recommencing. 

Prince  de  Ligne. 

To  woman,  mildness  is  the  best  means  to  be 
right. 

Afme.  de  Fontaines. 

The  reason  why  lovers  never  weary  of  each 
other's  company  is  because  they  speak  always  of 

themselves. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

All  the  reasoning  of  man  is  not  worth  one  sen- 
timent of  woman. 

Voltaire. 


173 

The  hand  never  tires  of  writing  when  the  heart 
dictates. 

De  Finod. 

The  resistance  of  a  woman  is  not  always  a 
proof  of  her  virtue,  but  more  frequently  of  her  ex- 
perience. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

One  can  not  imagine  how  much  cleverness  is 
necessary  not  to  be  ridiculous. 

Chamfort. 

Oblivion :  a  remedy  for  human  mise 

A  de  Musset 

Flowers  that  come  from  a  loved  hand  are  more 
prized  than  diamonds. 


Calumny  is  moral  assassination. 


The  pains  that  excite  the  least  pity  in  women 
are  those  that  we  suffer  for  them. 

Cliabanon. 

Time,  which  enfeebles  criminal  desires,  leads 
us  back  to  legitimate  affection. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 


174 

Absence  diminishes  weak  passions  and  aug- 
ments great  ones;  as  the  wind  extinguishes  tapers, 
but  increases  a  conflagration. 

La-  RocJtefoucauld. 

The  heart  that  sighs  has  not  what  it  desires. 

Proverb. 

Consideration  for  woman  is  the  measure  of  a 
nation's  progress  in.  social  life. 

Gregoire, 

He  who  reckons  ten  friends  has  not  one. 

Malesherbes. 

The  heart  of  a  loving  woman  is  a  golden  sanc- 
tuary, where  often  there  reigns  an  idol  of  clay. 

Limayrac. 

No  one  is  satisfied  with  his  fortune,  nor  dis- 
satisfied with  his  own  wit. 

Mme.  Deshouhires. 

Flattery  is  like  false  money :  it  impoverishes 
those  who  receive  it. 

Mme.  Voillez. 

Heaven  has  refused  genius  to  woman,  in  order 
to  concentrate  all  the  fire  in  her  heart. 

Rivarol. 


175 
When  the  heart  is  full,  the  lips  are  silent. 

An  honest  woman  is  the  one  we  fear  to  com- 
promise. 

Balzac. 

Sorrow  teaches  virtue. 

A.  de  Musset. 

To  blame  a  young  man  for  being  in  love  is  like 

chiding  one  for  being  ill. 

Duclos. 


Enjoy  and  give  enjoyment,  without  injury  to 
thyself  or  to  others :  this  is  true  morality. 

Chamfort. 


It  is  a  great  obstacle  to  happiness  to  expect  too 
much. 

Fontenelle. 


Modesty  is  the  conscience  of  the  body. 

Balzac. 


Woman  divine  that  they  are  loved  long  before 
it  is  told  them. 

Marivanx. 

A  coquette  has  no  heart,  she  has  only  vanity: 
it  is  adorers  she  seeks,  not  love. 

Poincelot. 


i76 


The  most  lucrative  commerce  has  ever  been 
that  of  hope,  pleasure,  and  happiness :  it  is  the 
commerce  of  authors,  women,  priests,  and  kings. 

Mine.  Roland. 

Love,  unrest,  and  sorrow  always  journey  to- 
gether. 

Proverb. 

When  death  consents  to  let  us  live  a  long  time, 
it  takes  successively  as  hostages  all  those  we  have 
loved. 

Mme.  Necker. 

With  a  pretty  face  and  the  freshness  of  twenty, 
a  woman,  however  shallow  she  may  be,  makes 
many  conquests,  but  does  not  retain  them :  with 
cleverness,  thirty  years,  and  a  little  beauty,  a  wo- 
man makes  fewer  conquests  but  more  durable 
ones. 

A.  Dupuy. 
i 

There  is  nothing  more  tiresome  than  the  con- 
versation of  a  lover  who  has  nothing  to  desire,  and 
nothing  to  fear. 

Mme.  de  Sartory. 

.  Manners  are  the  hypocrisies  of  nations :  the 
hypocrisies  are  more  or  less  perfected. 

Balzac. 


177 
Love,  like  axioms,  can  not  be  demonstrated. 


Women  are  never  stronger  than  when  they  arm 

themselves  with  their  weakness. 

Mme.  du  Deff'and. 

Let  us  laugh  !  Our  fathers  laughed  at  their 
miseries,  let  us  laugh  at  ours  too !  Why  !  Lisette 
is  not  cruel,  nor  is  my  flagon  broken  ! 

Beranger. 

God,  who  repented  of  having  created  man, 
never  repented  of  having  created  woman. 

Malherbe. 

Cupid  is  a  traitor  who  scratches,  even  when 
one  only  plays  with  him. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

There  are  men  who  pride  themselves  on  their 
insensibility  to  love  :  it  is  like  boasting  cf  having 
been  always  stupid. 

S.  de  Castres. 

I  hate  hypocrites,  insolent  comedians,  who  put 
on  their  virtues  with  their  white  gloves. 

A.  de  Mussel. 

We  love  handsome  women  from  inclination, 
homely  women  from  interest,  and  virtuous  women 
from  reason. 

Amelot. 
T* 


I78 

One  may  forgive  infidelity,  but  one  does  not 
forget  it. 

Mile,  de  Lafayette. 

To  please,  one  must  make  up  his  mind  to  be 
taught  many  things  which  he  already  knows,  by 
people  who  do  not  know  them. 

Chamfort. 

As  there  is  no  love  without  desire,  so  there  is 
none  without  hope. 


The  matrimonial  knot  is  sometimes   tied   so 
tightly  that  it  wounds  those  whom  it  unites. 

De  Varennes. 

Libertinage  is  on  the  frontier  of  liberty. 
The  greatest  merit  of  some  men  is  their  wife. 

Poincelot. 

Men  acquire  acuteness ;  women  are  born  with  it 


All  men  are  not  men. 

Proverb. 


179 

Women  call  repentance  the  sweet  remembrance 
of  their  faults,  and  the  bitter  regret  of  their  ina- 
bility to  recommence  them. 

Beaumanoir. 


Since  love  teaches  how  to  trick  the  tricksters, 
how  much  reason  have  we  to  fear  it — we  who  are 
poor  simple  creatures ! 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Old  acquaintances  are  better  than  new  friends. 

Mme.  du  Deffand. 

In  love,  the  only  way  to  resist  temptation  is  to 
sometimes  succumb  to  it. 

Mme.  de  ChoiseuL 

I  have  seen  young  ladies  of  twenty-five  affect- 
ing a  childish  ingenuousness  which  has  made  me 
doubt  their  virtue. 


What  a  woman  wills,  God  wills. 

Proverb, 


When  women  love  us,  they  forgive  us  every- 
thing, even  our  crimes ;  when  they  do  not  love  us, 
they  give  us  credit  for  nothing,  not  even  for  our 

virtues. 

Balzac. 


i8o 


That  a  liaison  between  a  man  and  a  woman 
may  be  truly  interesting,  there  must  be  between 
them  enjoyment,  remembrance,  or  desire. 

Chamfort. 

Love  has  no  age  :  it  is  always  in  birth. 

Pascal. 

With  the  world,  do  not  resort  to  injuries,  but 
only  to  irony  and  gayety  :  injury  revolts,  while 
irony  makes  one  reflect,  and  gayety  disarms. 

Voltaire. 

All  women  are  equal  in  love. 


Divorce  is  necessary  in  advanced  civilizations. 

Montesquieu. 

The  most  effective  coquetry  is  innocence. 

Lantartine. 

Woman,  naturally  enthusiastic  of  the  good  and 
the  beautiful,  sanctifies  all  that  she  surrounds  with 

her  affection. 

Alfred  Mercier. 

That  immense  majority,  the  fools,  who  made 
the  laws  that  regulate  the  manners  of  the  world, 
very  naturally  made  them  for  their  own  benefit. 


Friendship  between  two  women  is  always  a 

plot  against  another  one. 

A.  Karr. 

The  prayer  of  Lahire  :  "  God  !  do  unto  La- 
hire  what  thou  wouldst  Lahire  should  do  unto 
Thee,  if  Thou  wert  Lahire,  and  if  Lahire  were 
Thee !  " 


To  fall  in  love  is  not  difficult :  the  difficulty 

lies  in  telling  it. 

A.  de  Musset. 

Those  who  appear  cold,  but  are  only  timid,  as 
soon  as  they  dare  to  love,  adore. 

Mme.  Swetchine. 

It  is  beauty  that  begins  to  please,  and  tender- 
ness that  completes  the  charm. 

Fontenelle. 


Society,  when  it  is  not  frantic,  is  idiotic. 

Lamennais. 

In  those  countries  where  the  morals  are  the 
most  dissolute,  the  language  is  the  most  severe ;  as 
if  they  would  replace  on  the  lips  what  has  desert- 
ed the  heart. 

Voltaire. 


182 

Liberty  is  a  progressive  conquest. 


Guiroutt. 


We  have  been  thrust  into  the  world — we  know 
not  why ;  and  we  must  die  to  become — we  know 
not  what. 

Mme.  d'1  Albany. 

The  woman  who  loves  us  is  only  a  woman,  but 
the  woman  we  love  is  a  celestial  being  whose  de- 
fects disappear  under  the  prism  through  which 
we  see  her. 

£.  de  Girardin. 

Man  is  Creation's  master-piece.  But  who  says 
so  ? — Man  ! 

Gavarni. 

The  conversation  of  women  in  society  resem- 
bles the  straw  used  in  packing  china :  it  is  nothing, 
yet,  without  it,  everything  would  be  broken. 

Mme.  de  Salm. 

A  little  love  rapidly  develops  the  sensibilities 
and  intelligence  of  women :  it  is  through  the  heart 

that  they  ripen  or  mold. 

Lattna. 

The  nervous  fluid  in  man  is  consumed  by  the 
brain ;  in  woman,  by  the  heart :  it  is  there  that 
they  are  the  most  sensitive. 

Stendhal. 


1*3 

In  love,  great  pleasures  come  very  near  great 
sorrows. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

"  O  merciful  Heaven  !  may  my  last  season  be 
still  a  spring  !  " 

Beranger. 

It  is  modesty  that  places  in  the  feeble  hand  of 
beauty  the  sceptre  that  commands  power. 

Helvltius. 

All  or  nothing  is  the  motto  of  Love. 


All  and  nothing  is  the  motto  of  Hymen. 

Montlasier. 

Finesse  has  been  given  to  woman  to  compen- 
sate the  force  of  man. 

Laclos. 

Would  you  know  how  to  give  ?  Put  yourself 
in  the  place  of  him  who  receives. 

Mme.  de  Puisieux. 

The  science  of  women,  as  that  of  men,  must 
be  limited  according  to  their  powers :  the  differ- 
ence of  their  characters  ought  to  limit  that  of  their 
studies. 

FtneloH. 


1 84 

All  great  designs  are  formed  in  solitude ;  in 
the  world,  no  object  is  pursued  long  enough  to 
produce  an  impression. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

Virtue,  with  some  women,  is  but  the  precaution 
of  locking  doors. 

Lemontey. 

The  reasonable  worship  of  a  just  God  who 
punishes  and  rewards,  would  undoubtedly  contrib- 
ute to  the  happiness  of  men ;  but  when  that  salu- 
tary knowledge  of  a  just  God  is  disfigured  by  ab- 
surd lies  and  dangerous  superstitions,  then  the 

remedy  turns  to  poison. 

Voltaire. 

Man,  like  everything  else  that  lives,  changes 
with  the  air  that  sustains  him. 

Taine. 

A  woman  by  whom  we  are  loved  is  a  vanity ; 
a  woman  whom  we  love  is  a  religion. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

All  our  opinions,  sentiments,  principles,  preju- 
dices, religious  beliefs,  are  really  but  the  result  of 
birthplace  :  how  different  would  they  be,  had  we 
been  born  and  reared  at  the  antipodes  of  our  re- 
spective lands. 

De  Finod. 


Men  have  made  of  Fortune  an  all-powerful 
goddess,  in  order  to  be  made  responsible  for  all 
their  blunders. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

One  is  no  more  the  master  of  his  impressions 
than  of  his  coughing  or  sneezing. 

Mme  du  Deffand. 

Women  are  often  ruined  by  their  sensitiveness, 
and  saved  by  their  coquetry. 

Mile.  Azais. 

If  you  would  succeed  in  the  world,  it  is  ne- 
cessary that,  when  entering  a  salon,  your  vanity 
should  bow  to  that  of  others. 

Mme.  de  Genlis. 

The  head,  however  strong  it  may  be,  can  ac- 
complish nothing  against  .the  heart. 

Mile,  de  Scuderi. 

Rivals  who  blow  out  each  other's  brains  for 
the  eyes  of  a  coquette,  prove  that  they  have  no 
brains. 

A.  Ricard. 

A  languid  heart  is  tender ;  sadness  makes  love 
ferment. 

J.  J.  Rousseau. 


1 86 


Our  virtues  are  often  but  vices  in  disguise. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


In  a  tete-a-tete,  a  woman  speaks  in  a  loud  tone 
to  the  man  she  is  indifferent  to,  in  a  low  tone  to 
the  one  she  begins  to  love,  and  keeps  silent  with 
the  one  she  loves. 

Rochebrune. 

Women  who  have  not  fine  teeth  laugh  only  with 

their  eyes. 

Mme,  de  Jfieux, 

Dignities  change  men's  morals. 


Venus  always  saves  the  lover  whom  she  leads. 

Delatouche, 

Mothers  are  the  only  goddesses  in  whom  the 
whole  world  believes. 


Celebrity  is  the  chastisement  of  merit,  and  the 
punishment  of  talent. 

Chamfort. 

Women   often  deceive  to  conceal  what   they 
feel ;  men  to  simulate  what  they  do  not  feel — love. 

E.  Legouvi. 


i87 

Many  weep  for  the  sin,  while  they  laugh  over 
the  pleasure. 

Marguerite  de  Valois 

There  is  nothing  directly  moral  in  our  nature 
but  love. 

A.  Comte. 

Many  have  sought  roses  and  found  thorns. 

The  tears  of  a  young  widow  lose  their  bitter- 
ness when  wiped  by  the  hands  of  love. 

Benevolence   rejuvenates   the   heart,  exercise, 
the  memory,  and  remembrance,  life. 

Afme.  de  Lespinasse. 

How  many  could  be  made  happy  with  the  hap- 
piness lost  in  this  world. 

Levts. 

A  man's  passions,  tastes,  and  opinions  are  dis- 
covered by  his  admirations. 

C.  Nodier. 

Cold  natures  have  only  recollections ;  tender 

natures  have  remembrances. 

Afme.  de  Kntdencr* 

Social  usages :  a  respect  sincere  or  feigned  for 
absurd  forms. 


i88 


Languages  begin  by  being  a  music,  and  end  by 
being  an  algebra. 

Amplre. 

The  waltz  is  the  charging  step  of  love. 

H.  Murger. 

To  be  happy  is  not  to  possess  much,  but  to 
hope  and  to  love  much. 

Lawennais. 

The  world  is  a  book,  the  language  of  which  is 

unintelligible  to  many  people. 

Miry. 

Masked  balls  are  a  merciful  institution  for  ugly 
women. 


Man  is  not  depraved  by  true  pleasures,  but  by 

false  ones. 

De  Lacretelle. 

Love  for  old  men  is  sun  on  the  snow :  it  daz- 
zles more  than  it  warms  them. 

J.  Petit-Senn. 

Sometimes  we  must  have  love,  either  as  a  de- 
sirable good  or  an  inevitable  evil. 

Bussy-Rabutin. 


189 

A  woman's  life  can  be  divided  thus  :  the  age 
when  she  dances  but  does  not  dare  to  waltz — it 
is  the  spring;  the  age  when  she  dances  and  dares 
to  waltz — it  is  summer ;  the  age  when  she  dances 
but  prefers  to  waltz — it  is  autumn  ;  finally,  when 
she  dances  no  longer — it  is  winter,  that  rigorous 
winter  of  life. 

Mme.  de  Girardin. 

Some  old  men  like  to  give  good  precepts  to 
console  themselves  for  their  inability  no  longer  to 
give  bad  examples. 

A.  Dupuy. 

What  the  hand  can  not  reach  is  but  a  dream. 

Soulary. 

Civility  is  a  desire  to  receive  civility,  and  to 
be  accounted  well  bred. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

In  love,  it  is  as  it  was  with  the  thieves  of  Spar- 
ta :  only  the  awkward  are  punished. 

Absolutism  is  tolerant,  only  because  it  knows 
itself  mighty. 

A.  de  Gasparin. 

Calumny  spreads  like  an  oil-spot :  we  endeavor 
to  cleanse  it,  but  the  mark  remains. 

Mile,  de  Lesptnasse. 


190 

In  love,  one  must  not  attack  a  place  unless 
one  storms  it. 


Marriage  is  a  science. 

Balzac. 


We  scoff  at  women  who  take  us  seriously,  and 
we  take  tragically  to  those  who  scoff  at  us. 


Women  have  no  worse  enemies  than  women. 

Duclos. 

Hymen  comes  after  love,  as  smoke  after  flame. 

Chamfort. 

If  you  wish  a  coquette  to  regard  you,  cease  to 
regard  her. 


It  is  easier  to  make  all  Europe  agree  than  two 
women. 

Louis  XIV. 

We  live  with  our  defects  as  with  the  odors  we 
carry  about  us :  we  do  not  perceive  them,  but 
they  incommode  those  who  approach  us. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 


Agreeable  advice  is  rarely  useful  advice. 

Massillon. 

At  eighteen,  one  adores  at  once  ;  at  twenty,  one 
loves ;  at  thirty,  one  desires  ;  at  forty,  one  reflects. 

P.  de  Kock. 

A  woman  who  has  surrendered  her  lips  has 

surrendered  everything. 

Viard. 

This  world  is  but  a  lottery  of  goods,  of  ranks, 

of  dignities,  of  rights. 

Voltaire. 

A  beautiful  woman  is  the  paradise  of  the  eyes, 
the  hell  of  the  soul,  and  the  purgatory  of  the 
purse. 


The  past  gives  us  regret,  the  present  sorrow, 

and  the  future  fear. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 

In  love,  the  confidant  of  a  woman's  sorrow  of- 
ten becomes  the  consoler  of  it. 


Our  years,   our  debts,   and  our  enemies  are 
always  more  numerous  than  we  imagine. 

C.  Nodier. 


192 

If  eminent  men  whose  history  has  been  written 
could  return  to  life,  how  they  would  laugh  at  what 
has  been  said  of  them. 

De  Finod. 

He  who  pretends  to  know  everything  proves 
that  he  knows  nothing. 

Le  Bailly. 

The  attainment  of  our  greatest  desires  is  often 
the  source  of  our  greatest  sorrows. 


Marriage  communicates  to  women  the  vices  of 

men,  but  never  their  virtues. 

Fourier. 

The  remembrance  of  the  good  done  those  we 
have  loved,  is  the  only  consolation  left  us  when 
we  have  lost  them. 

Demoustier. 

Pleasure  and  pain,  the  good,  and  the  bad,  are 
so  intermixed  that  we  can  not  shun  the  one  with- 
out depriving  ourselves  of  the  other. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

It  is  not  always  for  virtue's  sake  that  women 
are  virtuous. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


193 

We  find  nothing  good  in  life  but  what  makes 
us  forget  it. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

Coquetry  is  the  desire  to  please,  without  the 
want  of  love. 

Rochepedre. 

At  fifteen,  to  dance  is  a  pleasure ;  at  twenty- 
five,  a  pretext ;  at  forty,  a  fatigue. 

A.  Ricard. 

The  weaknesses  of  women  have   been    given 
them  by  nature  to  exercise  the  virtues  of  men. 

Mme.  Necker. 

Love  without  desire  is  a  delusion :  it  does  not 
exist  in  nature. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

Hell  is  paved  with  women's  tongues. 

Abbf  Guyon. 

Woman  is  the  heart  of  man. 

Leroux. 


If  the  young  knew — if  the  old  could  ! 

Proverb 


The  only  secret  a  woman  guards  inviolably  is 
that  of  her  age. 


194 
The  morals  of  the  world  are  only  casuistry. 

The  worst  of  all  misalliances  is   that   of  the 
heart. 

Chamfort. 

Homeliness  is  the  best  guardian  of  a  young 
girl's  virtue. 

Mme.  de  Genlis. 

The  world   ceases   to  be  a  pleasure   when   it 
ceases  to  be  a  speculation. 


Love  is  the  poetry  of  the  senses. 

Balzac. 


One  wearies  delightfully  with  women. 


Love  is  the  beginning,  the  middle,  and  the  end 
of  everything. 

Lacordaire. 

Philosophy  teaches  us  to  bear  with  calmness — 
the  misfortunes  of  our  friends. 


Nothing  is  more  difficult  than  to  choose  a  good 
husband — unless  it  be  to  choose  a  good  wife. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 


'95 
Love  begins  too  well  to  end  well. 


Daumas. 


What  a  husband  forbids,  a  wife  desires. 

Proverb, 

The  rudest  man,  inspired  by  passion,  is  more 
persuasive  than  the  most  eloquent  man,  if  unin- 
spired. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

There  is  no  game  of  chance  more  hazardous 

than  marriage. 

J.  David. 

Whoever  has  learned  to  love,  has  learned  to 
be  silent. 

Mme.  de  Sartory. 

All  bow  to  virtue — and  then  walk  away. 

De  Finod. 

Women  are  happier  in  the  love  they  inspire 
than  in  that  which  they  feel :  men  are  just  the 
contrary. 

Beauchtne. 

Love  is  a  torrent  that  one  checks  by  digging  a 

bed  for  it. 

Commerson. 


196 

A  woman  is  a  well-served  table,  that  one  sees 
with  different  eyes  before  and  after  the  meal. 

It  is  necessary  to  be  almost  a  genius  to  make 
a  good  husband. 

Balzac. 

We  accuse  women  of  insincerity  without  per- 
ceiving that  they  are  more  sincere  with  us  than 
with  themselves. 

Pleasure  may  come  of  illusion,  but  happiness 
can  only  come  of  reality. 

Chamfort. 

The  duration  of  passion  is  no  more  in  our 
power  than  the  duration  of  life. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

To  swear  to  love  always  is  to  affirm  that  two 
beings  essentially  changeable  will  never  change. 


The  prodigality  of  women  has  reached  such 
proportions  that  one  must  be  wealthy  to  have  one 
for  himself:  we  have  no  other  resource  than  to 

love  the  wives  of  others. 

A.  Karr. 

The  world  forgives  with  difficulty  the  fact  that 
one  can  be  happy  without  it. 


i97 

We  quarrel  with  unfortunates  to  be  exempted 
from  pitying  them. 

Vauvenargues. 


Poverty  of  the  soul  is  worse  than  that  of  for- 
tune. 

Mme.  de  Lambert. 


To  enjoy  reading  is  to  transform  wearisome 
hours  into  delightful  ones. 

Montesquieu, 

"  Well !  sage  Evhemere,  what  have  you  seen  in 
all  your  travels  ?  "  "  Follies !  " 

Voltaire. 

Who  elevates  himself  isolates  himself. 

Rivorol. 

A  beautiful  woman  pleases  the  eye,  a  good 
woman  pleases  the  heart :  one  is  a  jewel,  the  other 
a  treasure. 

Napolenn  I. 

Memory  records  services  with  a  pencil,  injuries 
with  a  graver. 

De  Stgur. 

Reason  is  the  torch  of  friendship,  judgment  its 
guide,  tenderness  its  aliment. 

De  Bonald. 


198 

There  is  in  hypocrisy  as  much  folly  as  vice :  it 
is  as  easy  to  be  honest  as  to  appear  so. 

Mme.  de  Stall. 

Wit  is  a  zero  added  to  our  moral  qualities ;  but 
which,  standing  alone,  represents  nothing. 

C.  Jordan. 

Some  women  boast  of  having  never  accorded 
anything;  perhaps  it  is  because  they  have  never 
been  asked  anything. 


The  anticipation  of  pleasure  often  equals  the 
pleasure  itself. 

Fabre  d  'Eglantine. 

The  greatest  miracle  of  love  is  that  it  cures 
coquetry. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Hope  is  a  sarcasm. 

Alfred  Merrier  ("  La  fille  du  pretre  "). 

The  misfortune  of  those  who  have  loved  is  that 

they  can  find  nothing  to  replace  love. 

Duclos. 

Men  make  laws ;  women  make  manners. 

De  Slgur. 


199 

Do  you  wish  a  portrait  that  is  not  flattered  ? 
Ask,  a  woman  to  make  one  of  her  rival. 

De  Propriac. 

Vows  of  love  prove  its  inconstancy. 

Marmontel. 

Who  has  not  what  he  loves,  must  love  what  he 
has. 

Bussy-Rabutin. 

A  husband  is  a  plaster  that  cures  all  the  ills 

of  girlhood. 

Molilre. 

The  beginning  and  the  decline  of  love  mani- 
fest  themselves  in    the  embarrassment   that   one 

feels  in  the  tete-h-tete. 

La  Bruylre. 

The  wealthiest  man   is  he  who  is  most  eco- 
nomical ;  the  poorest  is  he  who  is  most  miserly. 

Chamfort. 

O  kiss!  mysterious  beverage  that  the  lips  of 
lovers  pour  into  each  other, as  into  thirsty  cups! 

A,  de  Afusset. 

Love    should    dare    everything  when   it   has 
everything  to  fear. 

SaurtH. 


2OO 


Hearts  agree ;  minds  dispute. 

Preault. 


Vows  are  the  false  money  that  pays  for  the  sac- 
rifices of  love. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

Woman  is  a  creature  between  man  and  the 
angels. 

Balzac. 

Everything  comes  and  goes.  To-day  in  joy, 
to-morrow  in  sorrow.  We  advance,  we  retreat,  we 
struggle ;  then,  the  eternal  and  profound  silence 

of  death  ! 

Victor  Hugo. 

One  loves  more  the  first  time,  better  the 
second. 

Rochepldre. 

Beggars  are  the  vermin  that  attach  themselves 
to  the  rich. 


There  never  has  been  a  nation  that  has  not 
looked  upon  woman  as  the  companion  or  the  con- 
solation of  man,  or  as  the  sacred  instrument  of  his 
life,  and  that  has  not  honored  her  in  those  char- 
acters. 

A.  de  M us  set. 


2OI 


Men  are  like  money :  we  must  take  them  for 
their  value,  whatever  may  be  the  effigy. 

Mme.  Necker, 

Words  really  flattering  are  not  those  which  we 
prepare,  but  those  which  escape  us  unthinkingly. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos, 

Woman  lives  by  sentiment,  man  by  action. 

Balzac. 

There  is  no  endurable  slavery  but  that  of  the 
heart. 

Great  minds  comprehend  more  in  a  word,  a 
look,  a  pressure  of  the  hand,  than  ordinary  men  in 
long  conversations,  or  the  most  elaborate  corre- 
spondence. 

Lavater. 

Woman  is  the  altar  of  love. 

The  laws  of  love  unite  man  and  woman  so 
strongly  that  no  human  laws  can  separate  them. 

Bateac. 

Who  of  us  has  not  shed  tears  over  the  tomb  of 
a  loved  one ! 

Cliateaubriand. 


What  is  the  world,  or  its  opinion,  to  him  who 
has  studied  in  the  lives  of  men  the  mysteries  of 
their  egotism  and  perfidy !  He  knows  that  the 
best  and  most  generous  hearts  are  often  forced  to 
tread  the  thorny  paths,  where  insults  and  outrages 

are  heaped  upon  them  ! 

George  Sand, 

Success  is  a  fruit  slow  to  ripen. 


He  who  never  leaves  his  country  is  full  of  pre- 
judices. 


Thinkers  who  trace  systems  of  philosophy  are 
merely  impelled  by  an  innate  instinct ;  they  know 
that  their  precepts,  however  excellent,  are  not 
suitable  to  the  majority :  the  wisdom  may  be  ad- 
mired by  many,  but  few  will  follow  the  principles. 

De  Fined. 

There  is  something  of  woman  in  everything 
that  pleases. 

Dupaty, 

The  best  philosophy  to  employ  toward  the 
world  is  to  alloy  the  sarcasm  of  gayety  with  the  in- 
dulgence of  contempt. 

Chamfort. 


203 
The  friends  of  our  friends  are  our  friends. 

Proverb. 

Men  do  not  always  love  those  they  esteem ; 
women,  on  the  contrary,  esteem  only  those  they 
love. 

S.  Dubay. 

When  I  cast  my  bread  to  the  birds  on  the 
shores,  the  waves  seemed  to  say :  Hope  !  for,  when 
thou  comest  to  want,  God  will  return  thy  bread ! 

God  still  owes  it  to  me. 

Higtsippe  Moreau. 

It  is  a  misfortune  for  a  woman  never  to  be 
loved,  but  it  is  a  humiliation  to  be  loved  no  more. 

Montesquieu. 

Fortune  and  caprice  govern  the  world. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  same  conditions  should  be  made  in  mar- 
riage that  are  made  in  the  case  of  houses  that  one 
rents  for  a  term  of  three,  six,  or  nine  years,  with 
the  privilege  of  becoming  the  purchaser  if  the 
house  suits. 

Prince  de  Ligne. 

The  way  to  make  friendships  that  will  last  long 
is  to  be  long  in  making  them. 


204 

Circumstances  do  not  make  men  :  they  discover 
them. 

Lantennais. 

One  should  choose  a  wife  with  the  ears,  rather 
than  with  the  eyes. 

Proverb. 

The  less  clothing  Love  wears,  the  warmer  he  is. 

Shallow  men  speak  of  the  past,  wise  men  of 
the  present,  and  fools  of  the  future. 

Mme.  du  Deffand. 

Love  seldom  dies  a  sudden  death 

Saurin. 

Venus  was  the  daughter  of  the  waves.  She 
gave  birth  to  Love :  we  can  expect  nothing  but 
tempest  from  a  daughter  of  the  sea. 

Marriage  was  instituted  as  a  penance  for  the 
sins  of  celibacy. 

For  a  woman  to  be  at  once  a  coquette  and  a 
bigot  is  more  than  the  meekest  of  husbands  can 
bear:  women  should  mercifully  choose  between 
the  two. 

LM  Bruytre. 


2O5 

Remembrance  of  the  dead  soon  fades.  Alas! 
in  their  tombs,  they  decay  more  slowly  than  in  our 
hearts. 

Victor  Hugo. 

When  we  read  that  the  lost  sheep  is  preferred 
to  the  rest  of  the  flock,  we  are  tempted  to  think 
that  penitence  is  preferable  to  innocence. 


There  are  hypocrites  of  vices  as  well  as  of  vir- 
tues. 

Ductos. 

Take  the  first  advice  of  a  woman,  not  the  sec- 
ond. 

Proverb. 

Marriage  is  a   treaty  in  which  the  conditions 
should  be  mutual. 

Balzac. 

Love  is  the  sweetest  of  errors — an  error  of  the 
heart,  of  which  it  is  cruel  to  be  disabused. 


Many  consent  to  be  virtuous,  only  on  condi- 
tion that  everybody  will  give  them  credit  for  it. 

De  Finod. 


2O6 


A  misanthrope  was  told  of  a  young  friend  of 
his :  "  Your  friend  has  no  experience  of  the  world  ; 
he  knows  nothing  about  it."  "True;  but  he  is 
already  as  sad  as  if  he  knew  all  about  it." 


Paradise  is  open  to  all  kind  hearts.  God  wel- 
comes whoever  has  dried  tears,  either  under  the 
crown  of  the  martyrs,  or  under  wreaths  of  flowers. 

Blranger. 

Men  say  more  evil  of  women  than  they  think : 
it  is  the  contrary  with  women  toward  men. 

S.  Dubay. 

When  we  imagine  that  we  love,  it  is  the  pres- 
ence of  the  loved  one  that  deceives  us  :  when  we 
truly  love,  it  is  absence  that  proves  it. 

Lingrie. 

The  presence  of  a  young  girl  is  like  the  pres- 
ence of  a  flower :  the  one  gives  its  perfume  to  all 
that  approach  it,  the  other  her  grace  to  all  who 
surround  her. 

L.  Desnoyers. 

Love,  that  is  but  an  episode  in  the  life  of  man, 
is  the  entire  story  of  the  life  of  woman. 

Mme.  de  Stael, 


207 

Love  is  the  sovereign  of  youth  and  the  tyrant 
of  age. 

Virginity  of  the  heart,  alas !  so  soon  ravished ! 
sweet  dreams!  expectations  of  happiness  and  of 
love !  fresh  illusions  of  the  morning  of  life !  why 
do  you  not  last  till  the  end  of  the  day ! 

Gavarni. 


Romances  are  not  in  books,  they  are  in  life. 


Youth  is  like  those  verdant  forests  tormented 
by  winds :  it  agitates  on  every  side  the  abundant 
gifts  of  nature,  and  some  profound  murmur  always 
reigns  in  its  foliage. 

Af.  de  Guerin. 

When  two  beings  are  united  by  love,  all  social 
conventionalities  are  suspended. 

Balzac. 

Truth  is  the  skeleton  of  appearances. 

A.  de  Musset. 

None  have  lived  without  shedding  tears. 

Voltaire. 


People  who  love  each  other  most  before  mar- 
riage, are  sometimes  those  who  love  each  other 
least  after  it. 

A.  Dupuy. 

Oh !  why  is  daily  bread  indispensable  to  the 
poet  and  to  the  artist !  This  inexorable  necessity 
darkens  for  them  the  joys  of  nature  and  the  radi- 
ations of  the  beautiful. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

"Women  never  lie  more  astutely  than  when 
they  tell  the  truth  to  those  who  do  not  believe 
them. 


Comedies  acted  on  life's  stage,  behind  the 
scenes,  are  much  more  spirited  than  those  acted 
in  sight  of  the  audience. 


De  Finod. 


The  eye  is  the  messenger  of  the  heart. 

Quarrels  of  lovers — renewals  of  love. 

Proverb. 

Limited  in  his  nature,  infinite  in  his  desires, 
man  is  a  fallen  god  who  remembers  heaven. 

Lamartine. 


209 

A  woman  who  has  not  seen  her  lover  for  the 
whole  day  considers  that  day  lost  for  her :  the  ten- 
derest  of  men  considers  it  only  lost  for  love. 

Mme,  de  Saint.    \ 

Man  thinks,  and,  at  once,  becomes  the  master 

of  the  beings  that  do  not  think. 

Buffon. 

We  have  sometimes  loved  so  much  that  there 
is  nothing  left  in  our  hearts  that  enables  us  to  love 
again. 

Rocliebrune. 

It  is  always  imprudent  to  marry  a  woman  for 
love  in  whose  bosom  you  inspire  none. 

Mme.  cfArconville. 

Life  is  a  desert  waste  :  to  beguile  the  ennui  of 
the  journey  across  it,  heaven  gave  us  the  kiss. 

S.  Marichal. 

Women  ask  if  a  man  is  discreet,  as  men  ask  if 
a  woman  is  pretty. 


Friendship  makes  more  happy  marriages  than 
love  does. 

14 


210 


What  old  men  can   do  always  falls  short  of 
what  they  desire. 

A.  Ricard. 

In  love,  old  wood  burns  better  than  green. 


The  art  of  conversation  consists  less  in  show- 
ing one's  own  wit  than  in  giving  opportunity  for 
the  display  of  the  wit  of  others. 

La  Bruyere. 

We  take  less  pains  to  be  happy  than  to  appear 
so. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  art  of  putting  the  right  men  in  the  right 
places  is  first  in  the  science  of  government ;  but, 
that  of  finding  places  for  the  discontented  is  the 
most  difficult. 

Talleyrand. 

One  writes  well  only  of  what  he  has  seen  or 
suffered. 

De  Goncourt. 

Old  men  who  preserve  the  desires  of  youth  lose 
in  consideration  what  they  gain  in  ridicule. 

Napoleon  I. 


211 

Only  the  victims  of  love  know  how  to  soften 
its  pains. 

Mme.  de  Graffigny. 

•  It  takes  twenty  years  to  bring  man  from  the 
state  of  embryo,  and  from  that  of  a  mere  animal, 
as  he  is  in  his  first  infancy,  to  the  point  when  his 
reason  begins  to  dawn.  It  has  taken  thirty  cen- 
turies to  know  his  structure;  it  would  take  eter- 
nity to  know  something  of  his  soul :  it  takes  but 

an  instant  to  kill  him. 

Voltaire. 

Esteem  is  the  strongest  of  all  sympathies. 

E.  de  Girardin. 

One  could  make  a  great  book  of  what  has  not 
been  said. 

Rivarol. 

Equality  is  not  a  law  of  nature.  Nature  has 
made  no  two  things  equal :  its  sovereign  law  is 
subordination  and  dependence. 

Vauvenargues. 

To  be  happy,  one  must  ask  neither  the  how 
nor  the  why  of  life. 


With  time  and  patience,  the  mulberry-leaf  be- 
comes satin. 

Proverb. 


212 


Virtue  has  many  preachers,  but  few  martyrs. 

Helvitius. 

To  make  love  when  one  is  young  and  fair  is  a 
venial  sin :  it  is  a  mortal  sin  when  one  is  old  and 
ugly. 

De  Bernts. 

The  hell  for  women  who  are  only  handsome  is 
old  age. 

Saint-Evremond. 

A  woman  would  be  in  despair  if  nature  had 
formed  her  as  fashion  makes  her  appear. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

Most  women  caress  sin  before  embracing  pen- 
itence. 

Fontenelle. 

Solitude  is  the  consolation  of  hearts  betrayed. 


In  love,  she  who  gives  her  portrait  promises 
the  original. 

A.  Dufuy. 

All  our  dignity  lies  in  our  thoughts. 

Pascal. 


213 

With  women,  friendship  ends  when  rivalry  be- 
gins. 


"  Respect  my  independence !  Lisette  alone 
has  the  right  to  smile  when  I  say :  I  am  indepen- 
dent !  " 

Blranger. 

It  costs  more  to  satisfy  a  vice  than  to  feed  a 
family. 

Balzac. 

Prudery  is  often  the  mantle  chosen  to  conceal 
triumphant  vice. 


There  are  but  three  classes  of  men  :  the  retro- 
grade, the  stationary,  the  progressive. 

Lavater. 

Republics  come  to  an  end  by  luxurious  habits ; 
monarchies  by  poverty. 

Montesquieu. 

Solitude  is  the  religion  of  the  soul. 

A.  Dumas  pere. 

Often  a  man  is  irregular  in  his  conduct  solely 
because  his  position  does  not  allow  him  the  mo- 
notonous pleasures  of  marriage. 

La  BeaumelU. 


214 

Friendship  between  women  is  only  a  suspen- 
sion of  hostilities. 


We  ought  to  die  when  we  are  no  longer  loved, 

Mme.  Sophie  Gray. 

It  is  the  path  of  the  passions  that  has  conduct- 
ed me  to  philosophy. 

y.  y.  Rousseau. 

A  great  fondness  for  animals  often  results  from 
a  knowledge  of  men. 


Love  is  rather  the  god  of  sensation  than  of 
sensibility. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos. 

In  a  tfte-A-t#&t  we  are  never  more  interrupted 
than  when  we  say  nothing. 

Mile,  de  Lespinasse. 

The  woman  who  throws  herself  at  a  man's  head 
will  soon  find  her  place  at  his  feet. 

L.  Desnoyers. 

Prayer  is  the  dew  of  the  soul  ravaged  by  ad- 
versity, and  oftentimes  the  only  bread  of  the  poor. 

A.  Poincelot. 


215 

We  dream  such  beautiful  dreams,  that  we 
often  lose  all  our  happiness  when  we  perceive  that 
they  are  only  dreams. 


Joy  is  the  ray  of  sunshine  that  brightens  and 
opens  those  two  beautiful  flowers,  Confidence  and 

Hope. 

E.  Souvestre. 

There  is  but  one  kind  of  love,  but  there  are  a 
thousand  different  copies  of  it. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

To  invite  a  guest  is  to  take  the  responsibility 
of  his  happiness  during  his  stay  under  our  roof. 

Brillat-Savarin. 

He  who  can  not  govern  his  passions  should 
kill  them,  as  we  kill  a  horse  when  we  can  not  mas- 
ter it. 

Cham/crt. 

To  talk  in  a  ttte-b-tete  of  the  mysteries  of  love, 
is  to  play  with  fire  on  a  barrel  of  gunpowder. 

Levis. 

A  woman  can  not  guarantee  her  heart,  even 
though-  ber  husband  be  the  greatest  and  most  per- 
fect of  men. 

George  Sand. 


210 


Folly  always  deserves  its  misfortunes. 

A.  Prtault. 

Woman  seldom  hesitates  to  sacrifice  the  hon- 
est man  who  loves  her,  without  pleasing  her,  to 
the  libertine  who  pleases  her,  without  loving  her. 

A.  Ricard. 


Spring  is  the  painter  of  the  earth. 

Alcuin, 


What  saves   the  virtue  of  many  a  woman  is 

that  protecting  god,  the  impossible. 

Balzac, 

We  always  find  wit  and  merit  in  those  who 
look  at  us  with  admiration. 


O  Love !  when  thou  findest  thy  true  apostles 
on  earth  united  in  kisses,  thou  commandest  their 
eyelids  to  close  like  veils,  that  they  may  not  see 
their  happiness  ! 

A.  de  Musset. 

Let  us  believe  what  we  can,  and  hope  for  the 
rest. 

De  Finod. 

A  woman  and  her  servant,  acting  in  accord, 

would  outwit  a  dozen  devils. 

Proverb. 


217 

Nature  tempts  us  continually,  but  we  are  not 
responsible  for  the  sin,  unless  our  reasoning  gives 

its  consent. 

Pascal. 

If  women  are  naturally  more  superstitious  than 
men,  it  is  because  they  are  more  sensitive  and  less 
enlightened. 

BeaucMne. 

There  are  none  who  are  truly  virtuous,  but 
those  who  have  combated. 


"  The  difference  between  you  and  me,"  said  a 
philosopher,  "  is  that  you  say  to  masked  hypo- 
crites, '  I  know  you,'  while  I  leave  them  with  the 
idea  that  they  have  deceived  me." 

Chamfort. 

Some  women  are  so  just  and  discerning  that 
they  never  see  an  opportunity  to  be  generous. 


As  we  grow  old,  we  grow  more  foolish  and 
more  wise. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

A  royal  court  without  women    is  like  a  year 
without  spring,  a  spring  without  flowers. 

Francis  I.  of  France. 


2l8 


Very  few  people  know  what  love  is,  and  very 
few  of  those  that  do,  tell  of  it. 

Mme.  Guizot. 

The  miser  is  poor  to  the  extent  of  all  that  he 
has  not  yet  acquired. 


Suspense,  of  all  the  torments,  is  the  most  diffi- 
cult to  endure. 

A.  de  Musset. 

A  woman  full  of  faith  in  the  one  she  loves  is 
but  a  novelist's  fancy. 

Balzac. 

Grief  has  two  forms  of  expression,  laughter  and 
tears;  and  tears  are  not  the  saddest. 

L.  Blanc. 

There  are  some  illusions  that  are  like  the  light 
of  the  day  :  when  lost,  everything  disappears  with 
them. 

Mme.  Dufresnoy. 

"  He  swore  to  me  an  eternal  love.  Eternity 
has  lasted  but  one  morning !  " 

Millevoye. 

Ignorance  is  less  distant  from  truth  than  preju- 
dice. 

Diderot. 


219 

To  a  woman,  the  romances  she  makes  are  more 
amusing  than  those  she  reads. 

T.  Gautier. 

Life  is  long  enough  for  him  who  knows  how  to 
use  it.     Worki.i^  and  thinking  extend  its  limits. 

Voltaire. 

The  best  woman  in  the  world  is  the  one  we 
love. 

Provocation  is  a  play  of  coquetry  of  which  vir- 
tue often  pays  the  penalty. 

Lingrie. 

Frankness  consists  in  always  telling  the  truth, 
but  not  always  all  the  truth. 


Pretty  women  are  like  sovereigns  :  one  flatters 
them  only  through  interest. 


However  old  a  conjugal  union,  it  still  garners 
SOT12  sweetness.  Winter  has  some  cloudless  days, 
and  under  the  snow  a  few  flowers  still  bloom. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 

There  are  no  women  to  whom  virtue  comes 
easier  than  those  who  possess  no  attractions. 


A  lover  who  is  no  longer  loved  is  still  good  for 
something :  he  serves  to  hide  the  one  who  has  re- 
placed him. 


Life  is  a  mournful  silence  in  which  the  heart 
ever  calls. 

Lamartine. 

Woman  conceals  only  what  she  does  not  know. 

Proverb. 

Sin  is  not  so  sinful  as  hypocrisy. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

Nowadays,  those  who  love  nature  are  accused 
of  being  romantic. 

Chatnfort. 

Stupid  stoics!  you  want  to  change  man,  and 
you  destroy  him ! 

Voltaire. 

A  lover  is  a  herald  who  proclaims  the  merit, 
the  wit,  or  the  beauty  of  a  woman :  what  does  a 
husband  proclaim? 

Balzac. 

When  we  do  good  to  our  fellow  sufferers,  we 
invest  in  a  savings-bank  from  which  the  heart  re- 
ceives the  interest. 

E.  Souvestre. 


221 


Love  is — I  know  not  what;  which  comes — I 
know  not  whence;  which  is  formed — I  know  not 
how ;  which  enchants — I  know  not  by  what ;  and 
which  ends — I  know  not  when  or  why. 

Mile,  de  Scudtri. 

A  lover  is  loved  most,  a  wife  best,  a  mother 
always. 

Do  not  crust  a  woman,  even  when  dead. 

Proverb. 

To-day,  we  are  all  adrift,  having  nothing  more 
either  to  venerate  or  to  believe. 

Mine.  Louise  Colet. 

Women  are  demons  that  make  us  enter  hell 
through  the  door  of  paradise. 


Bachelors  are  the  freebooters  of  marriage. 

Balzac. 

Hope  is  a  loan  made  to  happiness. 


We  all  drink  at  the  spring  of  happiness  in  a 
fractured  vase :  when  it  reaches  our  lips,  there  is 

almost  nothing  left  in  it. 

Mme.  du  Demand. 


222 


When   a  woman    is  no  longer   attractive    she 
ceases  to  be  inconstant. 


All  men  have  desires,  but  all  men  have  not  love. 


Every  mortal  is  relieved  by  speaking  of  his» 
misfortunes. 

A,  'Ihenier. 

Love  extinguished  can  be  rekindled :  love  worn 
out — never. 


From  the  day  one  can  not  conceril  a  defect,  one 
exaggerates  it. 

Alfred  Bougeart. 

A  brother  is  a  friend  given  by  nature. 

G.  Legouvl. 

The  love  of  the  past  is  ofcen  but  the  hatred  of 
the  present. 


God  created  in  our  misery  the  kisses  of  chil- 
dren for  the  tears  of  mothers. 

E.  Legouvt. 

One  may  ruin  himself  by  frankness,  but  one 
surely  dishonors  himself  by  duplicity. 

Vieillard. 


223 

The  greatest  of  all  sins  is  the  sin  of  love :  it  is 
so  great  that  it  takes  two  persons  to  commit  it. 

Cardinal  Le  Camus. 

What  renders  the  vanity  of  others  unbearable 
to  us  is  the  wound  it  inflicts  on  ours. 

La  Rocfiefoucauld. 

Idleness  is  not  a  vice  :  it  is  a  rust  that  destroys 
all  virtues. 

Due  de  Nemours. 

If  a  woman  says  to  you,  "  I  will  never  see  you 
again !  "  hope ;  but,  if  she  says,  "  Notwithstanding, 
I  shall  always  see  you  with  pleasure  " — travel. 


There  are  some  passions  so  sweet  that  they  ex- 
cuse all  the  follies  they  provoke. 

Rochebrune. 

The  husband  who  is  not  loved  will  pay  for  At 
dearly,  some  day. 

Proverb 

Hope,  deceitful  as  it  is,  carries  us  agreeably 
through  life. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

The  remembrance  of  the  tears  I  have  shed  is 
the  only  good  left  me  in  the  world. 

A.  de  Musset. 


224 

The  greatest  misfortune  one  can  wish  his  ene- 
my is  that  he  may  love  without  being  loved  in 
return. 

Labouisse. 

Love  may  be  found  in  the  heart  of  an  ancho- 
rite :  never  in  the  heart  of  a  libertine. 

E.  Legouvt, 

How  many  have  died  without  having  given 
even  one  kiss  to  their  chimera  ! 

T.  Gautier. 

It  is  dangerous  to  discover  the  faults  or  weak- 
nesses of  certain  persons  :  they  never  forgive  us 
the  knowledge  of  these  secret  ulcers. 

De  Finod, 

Woman  is  a  charming  creature  who  changes 
her  heart  as  easily  as  her  gloves. 

Balzac. 

Hypocrisy  has  become  a  fashionable  vice,  and 
every  fashionable  vice  passes  for  a  virtue. 

Molilre. 

The  loss  of  illusions  is  the  death  of  the  soul. 

Chamfort. 

Sensitive  beings  are  not  sensible  beings. 

Balzac. 


Women  are  coquettes  by  profession. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 

The  discovery  of  a  new  dish  does  more  for 
the  happiness  of  man  than  the  discovery  of  a  star. 

Brillat-Savarin. 

Can  we  not  seek  the  author  of  life  but  in  the 
obscure  labyrinth  of  theology  ? 

Voltaire. 

Heaven   protect  me  from  my  friends;  I  will 
protect  myself  against  my  enemies. 

Proverb. 

Love  is  the  harvest  of  beauty. 


Pleasure   is   the   flower   that  passes;    remem- 
brance, the  lasting  perfume. 

Boufflers. 

Marriage  is  sometimes  only  a  long  quarrel. 


Any  confidence  is  dangerous  that  is  not  com- 
plete. 

I^a  Bruyere. 

There   are   no   marriages   in   paradise — thank 
Heaven ! 


226 


Nothing  makes  old  people  who  have  been  at- 
tractive more  ridiculous  than  to  forget  that  they 
are  so  no  longer. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

To  live  with  our  enemies  as  if  they  may  some 
time  become  our  friends,  and  to  live  with  our 
friends  as  if  they  may  some  time  become  our  ene- 
mies, is  not  a  moral  but  a  political  maxim. 


Hope  is  so  sweet  with  its  golden  wings,  that,  at 
his  last  sigh,  man  still  implores  it. 

De  la  Pena. 


Lovers  who  dispute  adore. 

Proverb. 


The  Creator,  in  obliging  man  to  eat,  invites 
him  by  appetite,  and  rewards  him  with  pleasure. 

Brillat-Savarin . 

Love  is  a  malicious  blind  boy,  who  seeks  to 
blind  the  eyes  of  his  guide,  that  both  may  go 
astray  together. 


Celebrity  :  the  advantage  of  being  known  to 
those  who  do  not  know  us. 

Cha  mfort. 


227 

A  woman  whose  ruling  passion  is  not  vanity  is 
superior  to  any  man  of  equal  capacity. 

Lavater. 

One  is  never  criminal  in  obeying  the  voice  of 
Nature. 

Balzac. 

There  are  more  men  who  have  missed  oppor- 
tunities than  there  are  who  have  lacked  opportuni- 
ties. 

La  Beaumelle. 

Mediocre  minds  usually  condemn  what  is  be- 
yond the  reach  of  their  understanding. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Love  is  the  dawn  of  marriage,  and  marriage  is 
the  sunset  of  love. 


If  there  were  a  people  of  gods,  they  would 
govern  themselves  democratically :  so  perfect  a 
government  is  not  suitable  to  men. 

J.  y.  Rousseau, 

Women  are  priestesses  of  the  unknown. 


If  I  held  all  truths  in  my  hand,  I  would  be- 
ware of  opening  it  to  men. 

Fontenelle. 


228 

Radicalism  is  but  the  desperation  of  logic. 

Lamartine. 

The  worst  of  all  countries  is  the  one  in  which 
we  have  no  friends. 

The  most  chaste  woman  may  be  the  most  vo- 
luptuous, if  she  loves. 

Mirabeau. 

Love,  which  is  such  a  little  thing,  is  still  the 
most  serious  thing  in  life. 

Lemontey. 

There  are  few  souls  \vho  are  so  vigorously  or- 
ganized as  to  be  able  to  maintain  themselves  in 
the  calm  of  a  strong  resolve  :  all  honest  consciences 
are  capable  of  the  generosity  of  a  day,  but  almost 
all  succumb  the  next  morning  under  the  effort  of 
the  sacrifcce. 

George  Sand. 

There  are  women  so  hard  to  please  that  it 
seems  as  if  nothing  less  than  an  angel  will  suit 
them  :  hence  it  comes  that  they  often  meet  with 
devils. 

Marguerite  de  Valots. 

It  is  sweet  to  die  young !  It  is  sweet  to  render 
to  God  a  life  still  full  of  illusions  ! 

A.  Center 


229 

Self-love   is  a  balloon  -filled  with  wind,  from 
which  tempests  emerge  when  pricked. 


Voltaire. 


To  amuse  the  public  :  what  a  sad  vocation  for 
a  man  who  thinks  ! 


The  astronomer  thinks  of  the  stars,  the  natu 
ralist  of  nature,  the  philosopher  of  himself. 

Fontenelle. 

To  love  is  to  ask  of  another  the  happiness  that 
is  lacking  in  ourselves. 

Rochepldre. 

If  man  knew  well  what  life  is,  he  would  not 
give  it  so  inconsiderately. 

Afme.  Roland. 

The  things  of  the  earth  are  not  worth  our  at- 
tachment to  them. 

Nicole. 

Woman  is  a  delightful  musical  instrument,  of 
which  love  is  the  bow,  and  man  the  artist. 

Stendhal. 

Conscience  is  the  voice  of  the  soul ;  passion, 
the  voice  of  the  body. 

y.  J.  Rousseau. 


230 

One  triumphs  over  calumny  only  by  disdain- 
ing it. 

Mme.  de  Maintenon. 

In  this  advanced  century,  a  girl  of  sixteen 
knows  as  much  as  her  mother,  and  enjoys  her 
knowledge  much  more. 


Virtue  is  the  politeness  of  the  soul. 

Balzac, 


Self-love  is  always  the  mainspring,  more  or  less 
concealed,  of  our  actions;  it  is  the  wind  which 
swells  the  sails,  without  which  the  ship  could  not 
go- 

Mme.  du  Chdtelet, 

The  greatest  evidence  of  demoralization  is  the 
respect  paid  to  wealth. 


There  is  among  men  such  intense  affectation 
that  they  often  boast  of  defects  which  they  have 
not,  more  willingly  than  of  qualities  which  they 
have. 

George  Sand. 


The  best  lesson  is  that  of  example. 

La  Harpe. 


231 

"  The  French  Guard  dies,  but  does  not  surren- 
der !  "     (General  Cambronne,  at  Waterloo.) 
Women  surrender,  and  do  not  die. 

Ch.  de  Bernard. 

There  is  more  merit  in  subduing  a  passion  than 

in  avenging  an  injury. 

Mascaron. 

It  is  a  great  misfortune  not  to  have  enough  wit 
to  speak  well,  or  not  enough  judgment  to  keep 

silent. 

La  Bruylre. 

Love  is  blind :  that  is  why  he  always  proceeds 
by  the  sense  of  touch. 


The  temperament  of  artists  is  such  that  they 
should  be  judged  differently  from  the  vulgar. 

De  Finod. 

What  has  become  of  those  personages  who 
made  so  much  noise  in  the  world?  Time  has 
made  one  step,  and  the  face  of  the  earth  is  re- 
newed. 

Chateaubriand. 

A  gilded  bit  does  not  make  the  horse  better. 

Proverb. 


232 

A  man  who  is  pleased  with  no  one  is  more  un- 
happy than  he  who  pleases  no  one. 

De  Saint-Rial. 

In  love,  the  husband  sees  but  the  statue :  the 
soul  is  shown  only  to  the  lover. 

Crebillon. 

Evil  is  so  common  in  the  world  that  it  is  easy 
to  believe  it  natural  to  man. 

F.  Soulif. 

Every  man  holds  in  his  hand  a  stone  to  throw 
at  us  in  adversity. 

Mme.  Bachi. 

Heroes  are  men  who  set  out  to  be  demi-gods 
in  their  own  eyes,  and  who  end  by  being  so  at 
certain  moments  by  dint  of  despising  and  combat- 
ing all  humanity. 

George  Sand. 

How  many  coward  passions  hide  themselves 
under  the  mask  of  puritanism  ! 

Mate,  Lovist  f^olet. 


Politeness  is  the  expression  or  imitation  of  so- 
cial virtues. 

Duclos. 


233 
Woman  :  man's  first  domicile. 


Diderot. 


"  I  will  love  you  always !  "     This  is  the  eternal 
lie  that  lovers  tell  with  the  greatest  sincerity. 


Sympathy  is  a  relationship  of  the  heart  and 
mind :  between  two  persons  of  different  sex  the 
senses  enter  the  relationship. 

A.  Dupuy. 

Very  few  people  know  how  to  enjoy  life.  Some 
say  to  themselves :  "  I  do  this  or  that,  therefore  I 
am  amused :  I  have  paid  so  many  pieces  of  gold, 
hence  I  feel  so  much  pleasure  " ;  and  they  wear 
away  their  lives  on  that  grindstone. 

A.  de  Mussel . 

Love  renders  chaste  the  most  voluptuous  plea- 
sures. 

Virey. 

At  every  stage  of  life  he  reaches,  man  finds 
himself  but  a  novice.  . 

Chamfort. 

It  is  strange  that  thought  should  depend  upon 
the  stomach,  and  still  that  men  with  the  best 
stomachs  are  not  always  the  best  thinkers. 

Voltaire. 


234 

The  ambitious  do  not  belong  to  themselves : 
they  are  the  slaves  of  the  world. 

The  passions  are  the  celestial  fire  that  vivifies 
the  moral  world.  It  is  to  them  that  the  arts  and 
sciences  owe  their  discoveries,  and  man  the  eleva- 
tion of  his  position. 

Helvttius. 

Glances  in  a  young  woman  are  charming  in- 
terpreters, which  express  what  the  lips  would  not 
dare  to  speak. 

Men  marry  to  make  an  end  ;  women,  to  make 
a  beginning. 

A.  Dupuy. 

Their  avenging  God !  rancorous  torturer  who 
burns  his  creatures  in  slow  fire !  When  they  tell 
me  that  God  made  himself  a  man,  I  prefer  to 
recognize  a  man  who  made  himself  a  god. 

A.  de  Musset. 

In  love,  if  inconstancy  gives  some  pleasure, 
constancy  alone  gives  happiness. 

Trublet. 

Most  women  proceed  like  the  flea,  by  leaps 
and  jumps. 

Balzac. 


235 

The  first  tear  of  love  that  one  causes  to  be  shed 
is  a  diamond,  the  second  a  pearl,  the  third — a 
tear. 

A.  Poincelot. 

Life  is  arid  and  terrible  ;  repose  is  a  chimera ; 
prudence  useless;  reason  itself  serves  only  to  dry 
up  the  heart.  There  is  but  one  virtue — the  eter- 
nal sacrifice  of  self. 

George  Sand. 

Is  it  not  the  realization  of  his  enforced  suffer- 
ings in  this  world  that  gives  man  the  hope  of  a 
better  life  after  death,  as  a  just  compensation  for 
the  miseries  in  this  ? 

De  Finod. 

Was  man  made  to  disdain  the  gifts  of  nature  ? 
Was  he  placed  on  earth  but  to  gather  bitter  fruits  ? 
For  whom  are  the  flowers  the  gods  cause  to 
bloom  at  the  feet  of  mortals  ?  It  pleases  Provi- 
dence when  we  abandon  ourselves  to  the  different 
inclinations  that  He  has  given  us :  our  duties 
come  from  His  laws,  and  our  desires  from  His  in- 
spirations. 

Prejudice,  vanity,  calculation  :  these  are  what 
govern  the  world. 

Chamfort. 


What  prevents  us  from  being  natural  is  the  de- 
sire to  appear  so. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 

Life  is  a  disease  of  which  sleep  relieves  us;  it 
is  but  a  palliative  :  death  is  the  remedy. 

Chamfort. 

People  call  eloquence  the  facility  that  some 
have  in  speaking  alone  and  for  a  great  length  of 

time. 

Pascal. 

Women  are  like  melons  :  it  is  only  after  having 
tasted  them  that  we  know  whether  they  are  good 
or  not. 

F.  Soulil. 

t      The  morals  of  to-day  are  made  up  of  appear- 
ances. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 

The  coquette  compromises  her  reputation,  and 
sometimes  saves  her  virtue  :  the  prude,  on  the  con- 
trary, often  sacrifices  her  honor  in  secret,  and  pre- 
serves it  in  public  opinion. 

Mme.  du  Bocage. 

We  should  often  be  ashamed  of  our  best  actions 
if  the  world  saw  the  motives  which  inspire  us. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


237 

God  has  put  into  the  heart  of  man  love  and  the 
tsoldness  to  sue,  and  into  the  heart  of  woman  fear 
and  the  courage  to  refuse. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

It  is  dangerous  to  say  to  the  people  that  their 
laws  are  unjust,  for  they  obey  them  only  because 

they  believe  them  just. 

Pascal. 


When  a  woman  invokes  her  reason,  it  is  a  sure 
sign  that  she  will  listen  to  her  heart. 


Nowadays  enthusiasm  is  accounted  folly;  truth, 
cynicism ;  dissimulation,  self-control ;  stiffness  of 
manners,  dignity;  deception,  cleverness;  hypoc- 
risy, decency;  selfishness,  economy;  freedom  of 
thought,  effrontery ;  and  superstition,  the  prop  of 
human  morals.  What  progress  in  language ! 


There  are  no  more  thorough  prudes  than  those 
women  who  have  some  little  secret  to  hide. 

George  Sand. 

Physical  beauty  in  man  has  become  as  rare  as 
his  moral  beauty  has  always  been. 

Mme.  Louise  Colet. 


238 

We  should  love  our  friends  as  true  amateurs 
love  pictures  :  they  keep  their  eyes  perpetually 
fixed  on  the  fine  points,  and  do  not  see  the  defects. 

Mme.  Du/resnoy. 

All  women  are  fond  of  minds  that  inhabit  fine 
bodies,  and  of  souls  that  have  fine  eyes. 

y.  Joubert. 

Love  is  a  disease  that  kills  nobody,  but  one 
whose  time  has  come. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 

Of  all  the  gifts  that  Nature  can  give  us,  the 
faculty  of  remaining  silent,  or  of  answering  at.  pro- 
pos,  is  perhaps  the  most  useful. 

Mme.  Campan. 

Life  is  as  a  slate  where  all  our  sins  are  written  : 
from  time  to  time  we  rub  the  sponge  of  repentance 
over  it,  in  order  to  begin  to  sin  anew. 


Strength  with  men  is  insensibility,  greatness 
is  pride,  and  calmness  is  indifference. 

George  Sand. 

Women  complain  of  the  lack  of  virtue  in  men, 
ana  do  not  esteem  those  who  are  too  strictly  vir- 
tuous. 

Blondel. 


239 

Thou  makest  the  man,  O  Sorrow !     Yes,  the 
whole  man,  as  the  crucible  gold ! 

Lamartine. 

Love  is  the  union  of  a  want  and  a  sentiment. 

Balzac. 

Manners,  morals,  customs  change  :  the  passions 
are  always  the  same. 

Mme.  de  Wahaut. 

Jest  with  life :  for  that  only  is  it  good. 

Voltaire. 


CONCLUSIVELY. 


ONE  loves  because  he  loves :  this  explanation 
is,  as  yet,  the  most  serious  and  the  most  decisive 
that  has  been  found  for  the  solution  of  this  prob- 
lem. 


True,  the  poisonous  breath  of  the  world  de- 
stroys our  illusions,  but  they  resuscitate  at  once 
when  a  ray  of  love  falls  upon  our  benumbed  hearts, 
as  the  warmth  of  the  sun  revives  the  poor  flowers 
withered  by  the  ices  of  winter. 

De  Fined, 

Society,  that  distills  so  many  poisons,  resembles 
that  serpent  of  India  whose  abode  is  the  leaf  of 
the  plant  that  cures  its  bite :  society  usually  offers 
a  remedy  for  the  sufferings  it  causes. 

A.  de  Musset. 


241 

After  having  said,  read,  and  written  what  we 
have  of  women,  what  is  the  fact  ?  In  good  faith, 
it  is  this  :  they  are  handsomer,  more  amiable,  more 
essential,  more  worthy,  and  have  more  sensibility 
than  we.  All  the  faults  that  we  reproach  in 
them  do  not  cause  as  much  evil  as  one  of  ours. 
And,  then,  are  their  faults  not  due  to  our  des- 
potism, injustice,  and  self-love? 

Prince  de  Ligne. 

"  O  God,  whom  the  world  misjudges,  and  whom 
everything  declares  !  listen  to  the  last  words  that 
my  lips  pronounce !  If  I  have  wandered,  it  was 
in  seeking  Thy  law.  My  heart  may  go  astray,  but 
it  is  full  of  Thee!  I  see,  without  alarm,  eternity 
appear ;  and  I  can  not  think  that  a  God  who  has 
given  me  life,  that  a  God  who  has  poured  so  many 
blessings  on  my  days,  will,  now  that  my  days  are 
done,  torment  me  for  ever !  " 

The  last  prayer  of  Voltaire. 

Everything  is  for  the  best,  in  this  best  of  pos- 
sible worlds. 

Proverb. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


A. 

Agoult,  Mme.  d',  123. 

Albany,  Mme.  d',  182. 

Alcuin,  216. 

Alibert,  16,  156. 

Amelot,  177. 

Ampere,  188. 

Andr^,  Marc,  109. 

Arconville,  Mme.  d',  117,  209. 

Argens,  D',  33,  90,  135. 

Arnault,  112. 

Arnoult,   Mme.    Sophie,    84, 

144. 

Aubert,  123. 
Azais,  Mile.,  185. 

B. 

Bachi,  Mme.,  58,  78,  232. 

Balzac,  H.  de,  8,  14,  19,  24, 
39,  41,  47,  50,  54,  56,  60, 
63,  67,  71,  74,  79,  84,  85, 


89,   96,  99,   102,   105,  114, 

I2O,  121,  122,  124,  127,  129, 
134,  142,  143,  149,  151,  152, 

161,  164,  165,  166,  167,  172, 
175, 176,  179,  190,  194,  196, 
200,  201,  205,  206,  213,  216, 

2l8,  22O,  221,  224,  227,  230, 

234, 239- 

Barjaud,  88. 
Barthe,  83. 
Barthelemy,  Da,  128. 
Bassanville,    Mme.    de,    131, 

156,  157,  164. 
Beauchene,  37,  122,  154,  195, 

217. 

Beaufort,  De,  17. 
Beaumanoir,  21,  179. 
Beaumarchais,  24,  83,  89,  118. 
Belmontet,  118. 
Be"ranger,  n,  12,  19,  22,  94, 

!??•  '83,  206,  213. 
Bernard,  De,  9,  102,  231. 


244 


Bernard,  Saint,  ng. 
Bernard,  Th.,  icS. 
Bernardin   de  St.  Pierre,  49, 

56,  70. 
Bernis,    De,     35,     68,      in, 

212. 

Blanc,  L.,  218. 
Blondel,  238. 
Bocage,  Mme.  du,  236. 
Boetie,  De  la,  52. 
Boileau,  7,  50,  52. 
Bonald,   De,    115,    139,    155, 

197. 

Bonnard,  137. 
Bosc,  Du,  13,  31,  87. 
Bossuet,  gr,  103,  112,  135. 
Boufflers,  II,  41,  53,  115,  136, 

225. 
Bougeart,  Alfred,  42,  45,  52, 

66,  91,  123,  125,  127,  132, 

144,  148,  222. 
Bourdaloue,  17. 
Brignicourt,  154. 
Brillat  -  Savarin,   16,   23,    43, 

123,  215,  225,  226. 
Bruis,  145. 
Bruix,  De,  38. 
Buffon,  209. 
Bussy-Rabutin,  130,  151,  156, 

168,  188,  199. 

C. 

Campan,  Mme.,  238. 
Cardan,  46,  166. 
Carnot,  134. 


Caron,  21. 

Castres,  De,  177. 

Chabanon,  173. 

Chamfort,  12,  18,  27,  37,  44, 
49.  55,  57,  59,  63,  66,  85, 
89,  96,  101,  106,  no,  in, 
114,  116,  119, 124,  126,  128, 

130,  133,  138,  139-  J42>  145, 
147,  148,  150,  153,  158,  160, 
162,  163,  166.  170,  173,  175, 
178,  180,  186, 190,  194,  196, 
199,  202,  205,  217,  220,  224, 
226,  233,  235,  236. 

Champcenest,  140. 

Chasles,  108. 

Chateaubriand,  22,  53,  60,  70, 
74,  75,  87,  153,  201,  231. 

Chatelet,  Mme.  du,  76,  128, 
230. 

Chenedolle,  70. 

Chenier,  A.,  68,  222,  228. 

Chevalier,  97,  127. 

Chillon,  64. 

Choiseul,      Mme.     de,     128, 

179- 

Colet,  Mme.  Louise,  26,  39, 
42,  57,  90,  loo,  128,  133, 
208,  221,  232,  236,  237. 

Colombat,  10. 

Comettant,  O.,  97,  108. 

Commerson,  P.,  96,  121,  195, 

Comte,  A.,  22,  33,  187. 

Conches,  De,  168. 

Condorcet,  18,  22. 

Constant,  Benjamin,  95. 


Corneilb,  86,  93,  138. 
Cotgrave,  41. 
Cottin,  Mme.,  150,  157. 
Cre'billon,  232. 

D. 

D'Alembert,  29,  95. 

Dautnas,  195. 

David,  J.,  195. 

Deffand,  Mme.  du,  9,  67,  165, 

!77>  179,  !85,  204,  221. 
Delatouche,  186. 
Delavigne,  Casimir,  24,  165. 
Delille,  75,  108. 
Demoustier,  67,  192. 
Dasbarolles,  9. 
Desbordes  -  Valmore,    Mme., 

128. 

Deshoulieres,  Mme.,  174. 
Desmahis,  22,  139. 
Desmoulins,  C.,  38. 
Desnoyers,   L.,   Go,   76,    141, 

206,  214. 
Diderot,  8,  28,  55,  69,  73,  95, 

99,  139,  218,  223. 
Dorat,  i63. 

Dubay,  S.,  92,  203,  206. 
Duels  38,  165. 
Duclos,  Ch.  P.,  1 8,  69,   165, 

168,  175,  190,  198,  205,  232. 
Dufresnoy,  Mme.,  13,  40,  6l, 

218,  238. 
Dumas,  A.  pire,  16,  108,  126, 

170,  213. 
Dumas  A.  Jils,  86,  117,  121. 


Dupaty,  202. 

Dupuy,  A.,  64  73,  82,  98 
125,  130,  176,  189,  208,  212, 

233,  234- 
Dussaulx,  144. 

E. 

Epinay,  Mme.  d',  98. 
Erckmann-Chatrian,  134. 

F. 

Fabre  d'Eg'antine   198. 

Fee,  Mme.  C6cile,  no,  117. 

Fe"nelon,  25,  183. 

Ferriere,  De  la,  loo. 

Feucheres,  90. 

Feuillet,  Octave,  90,  112. 

Figuier,  L.,  1 1 2. 

Finod,  De,  12,  16,  17,  20,  25, 
26,  33,  35,  39.  40,  45,  49. 
52,  56,  61,  65,  72,  78,  80, 
91,  93,  97,  103,  108,  112, 
116,  118, 122,  127,  132,  136, 
140,  148, 154,  173,  184, 192, 
195,  202,  205,  208,  216,  224, 
231,  235,  240. 

Firmez,  O.,  16,  44,  136. 

Flahaut,  Mme.  de,  113,  239. 

Fl^chier,  91. 

Fleury,  88. 

Florian,  70,  107. 

Fontaines, .Mme.  de,  15,  70 
172. 

Fontanes,  De,  55. 

Fontenelle,  10,  19,  29,  31,  56, 


246 


89,  104,  175,  181,  212,  227, 

229. 

Fourier,  192. 
Francis  I.  of  France,  217. 

G. 

Gasparin,  A.  de,  131,  146, 155, 

157,  189. 

Gaston,  De,  58,  112. 
Gautier,    The'ophile,    25,    34, 

3E,  36,  42,  50,  58,  64,  65, 

72,  84,  116,  150,  157,  160, 

163,  219,  224. 
Gavarni,  31,  182,  207. 
Genlis,  Mme.  de,  74,  105, 185, 

194. 

Geoffrin,  Mme.,  80. 
Gilbert,  48. 
Girard,  Abbe\  38. 
Girardin,  Emile  de,  19,  27,  31, 

35,  43,  46,  58,  65,  73,  77, 

83,  98,  155,  161,  182,  184, 

211. 

Girardin,  Mme.  de,  28,  189. 
Goncourt,  De,  162,  210. 
Graffigny,  Mme.  de,  87,  21 1. 
Gray,  Mme.  Sophie,  214. 
Grecourt,  39. 
Gre"goirc,  H.,  174. 
Gresset,  71. 

Grignan,  Mme.  de,  119. 
Guerin,     Mile.   Euge'nie    de, 

iS,  31. 

Gue>in,  Maurice  de,  207. 
Gu£roult,  182. 


Guibert,  Mme.,  21. 
Guizot,  46. 

Guizot,  Mme.,  62,  218, 
Guyard,  59,  125. 
Guyon,  Abbe",  193. 

H. 

Halle-,  135. 

Harleville,  Colin  d',  86. 
Helvetius,  109,  183,  212,  234 
Houdetot,  D',  23,  31. 
Houelle,  67. 

Houssaye,  Arsene,  57,  131. 
Hugo,  Victor,  13,  15,  25,  26, 

27,  30,  35,  44,  53,  54,  59, 
68,  72,  80,  91,  103, 107,  no, 

112,  114,  Ilg,  120,   148,  152, 
20O,  2O5. 

J. 

Janin,  Jules,  8,  131. 
Jaucourt,  137. 
Jerome,  Saint,  159. 
Jordan,  Camille,  70,  155,  198. 
Joubert,   126,  134,    146,    151, 

238. 

Jouy,  32,  114,  "30. 
Juillerat,  P.,  '/4. 

K. 

Karr,  Alphonse,  14,  32,  43, 
°3,  85,  87,  98,  106, 126,  129, 
138, 143,  158,  165,  170,  171 
1 8 1,  196. 

Kock,  Paul  de,  191. 


247 


Krudener,  Mme.  de,  66,  78, 
144,  187. 


Labe",  Mme.  Louise,  58. 

La  Beaumclle,  62,  105,  134, 
140,  213,  227. 

Laboaisse,  224. 

Laboulaye,  E.,  126. 

La  Bruyere,  8,  49,  57,  67,  76, 
80,  88,95,  97,  103,113,  117, 
125,  138,  145,  146,  147, 152, 
156,  161,  166, 167,  199,  204, 
210,  225,  231. 

La  Chaussee,  28. 

Laclos,  44,  183. 

Lacordaire,  194. 

Lacretelle,  9,  188. 

Lafayette,  Mile,  de,  178. 

La  Fontaine,  17,  Si,  122. 

La  Harpe,  230. 

Lallemand,  Dr.,  99. 

Lamartine,  29,  44,  53,  73,  121, 
129,  154,  180,  208, 220,  228, 

239- 
Lambert,  Mme.   de,   56,   89, 

114,  121,  140,  156, 190, 191, 

197. 
Lamcnnais,    19,    36,    44,    54, 

94,  145,  181,  1 88,  204. 
Lamotte,  89. 
La  Rochefoucauld,  15,  16,27, 

34,  39.  40,  43.  48,  51.  57. 

61,  62,  65,  72,  77,  83,  86, 

94,  95.  97,   103,  105,   107, 


HI,  112,  113,  IlS,  Ilg,  125, 
129,  136,  143,  148,  152,  154, 

158, 160,  163,  166, 168,  172, 

174, 186,  189,  192,  195,  196, 

198,203,  210,  215,  217,223, 

226,  227,  236. 
Latena,  10,  15,  30,  48,  51,  64, 

89,  151,  167,  182. 
Lavater,  29,  38,  47,  57,  60, 62, 

75,  82,   105,  133,  142,  201, 

213,  227. 
Le  Bai.ly,  192. 
Le  Camus,  Cardinal,  223. 
Ledru-Rolli.i,  127. 
Legouve,  E.,  81,  186,  224. 
Legouv£,  G.,  108,  222. 
Lemesles,  59,  60. 
Lemontey,  13,  20,  25,  59,  184, 

228. 

Leroux,  193. 
Lesage,  159. 
Lesguillon,  118. 
Lespinasse,    Mile,  de,  82,  94, 

105,    183,    187,     189,    212, 

214. 
Le>is,  60,  78,   102,  107,  109, 

143,  149,  187,  215. 
Ligne,  Prince  de,  23,  165,  172, 

203,  241. 

Limayrac,  28,  174. 
Lingr^e,    30,    109,    166,    206. 

219. 

Loiseleur,  102. 
Louis  XIV.,  190. 
Lussan,  Mme.  de,  136. 


248 


M. 

Maintenon,  Mme  de,  20,  32, 
44,  91,  163,  167,  192,  220, 
230. 

Maistres,  J   de,  93,  123. 

Malebranche,  162. 

Malesherbes,  21,  174. 

Malherbe,  41,  145,  177. 

Marechal,  S.,  38,  79,  209. 

Marguerite  de  Valois,  16,  17, 
30,  34,  42, 45,  53, 61, 66,  76, 
79.  85,  90,  102,  120,  123, 
125, 133, 156, 164, 170, 179, 
187,  228,  237,  238. 

Marivaux,  37,  175. 

Marmontel,  101,  199. 

Martin,  150. 

Mascaron,  231. 

Massias,  93,  95. 

Massieu,  63. 

Massillon,  36,  88,  140,  191. 

Mercicr,  Alfred,  19,  113,  125, 
135,  146,  149,  167, 170,  iSo, 
198. 

Mere,  149. 

Mery,  36,  iSS. 

Mezeray,  51. 

Michelet,  47,  62,  133. 

Millevoye,  66,  218. 

Mirabeau,  77,  130,  157,  228. 

Molierc,  26,  47,  75,  100,  134, 
168,  199,  224. 

Moncrif,  54. 

Monselet,  Ch.,  109. 


Montaigne,  n,  24,  26,  29,  34, 
41,  45,  49.  50,  52,  62,  63, 
75,  81,  85,  93,  ico,  109.  116, 

122,  133,   164. 

Montaran,  Mme.  de,  56. 

Montesquieu,  41,  69, 124,  140, 
160,  180,  197,  203,  213. 

Montlasicr,  183. 

Montolieu,  Mme.  de,  23. 

Moreau,  Heg£sippe,  203. 

Motteville,  Mme.  de,  150. 

Murger,  Henri,  106,  188. 

Musset,  Alfred  de,  10,  14,  20, 
23,  28, 31,  40,  51,  54,  63,  67, 
70,  71,  76,  79,  82,  91,  98, 
loo,  101,  106,  in,  120,  122, 
135,  142,  146,  147,  150, 152, 
157,  158,  173,  175,1/7,  iSi, 
199,  200,  207,  216,  218,  223, 
233,  234,  240. 

N. 

Napoleon  I.,  20,  22,  26,  34, 
37,  54,69,88,115,  139,155, 

162,  197,  2 IO. 

Necker,  Mine.,  21,  23,  32,  40, 
79,  98,  153,  170,  171,  176, 
193,  201. 

Nemours,  Due  de,  223. 

Nerval,  Gerard  de,  135. 

Nicole,  229. 

Ninon  de  Lenclos,  16,  24,  32, 
35,  58,  121,  124,  127,  138, 
148,  173,  177, 193,  200,  201, 
214. 


249 

Nodier,  Charles,  8,  in,  187,  Racine,  42. 

191.  Raison,  82. 
Raissoh,  33. 

Palissot,  38.  Raspail,  39. 

Panage,  148.  Raynal,  9. 

P-irfait,  Paul,  109.  Re"gnier,  74. 

Parny,  15.  R£tif  de  la  Bretonne,  48,  74 

Pa;cal,  40,  56,  63,  66,  71,  132,  92,  106,  145. 

159,  163,  180,  212,  217,  236,  Reybaud,  Mme.,  101. 

237.  Ricard,  A.,  8,  II,  21,  37,  60, 

Pauline,  136.  64,  77,  92,   104,   no,    128, 

Pena,  De  la,  226.  164,  168,  171,  185,  193,  210, 

Potit-Senn,  J.,  7,  15,   17,  27,  216. 

35.  36,  43,  58,  65,  72,  78,  Rieux,  Mme.  de,  14,  130,  141, 

96,  169,  188.  154,  163,  186. 

Picard,  162.  Rivarol,  37,  54,  69,  88,   115, 

Pichot,  A.,  43,  78,  118.  139,  155,  174,  197,  211. 

Pigault-Lebrun,  143.  Rochebrune,  20,  71,  72,  103, 

Piron,  28.  104,  169,  186,  209,  223. 

Poincelot,  30,  33,  90,  141, 175,  Rochepedre,   37,   51,   73,  79, 

178,  214,  235.  81,  86,   121,   132,  150,  167, 

Pompadour,  Mine,  de,  40.  193,  200,  229. 

Praslin,  Mme.  de,  137.  Roland,   Mme.,  46,    55,   103, 

Preault,  A.,  83,  200,  216.  142,  151,  176,  229. 

Propriac,  De,  199.  Rollin,  9. 

Prud'homme,  41.  Romainville,  13,  84,  120. 

Puisieux,    Mme.  de,   65,    72,  Romieu,  147. 

77.  83,  97,  183.  Roqueplan,    Nestor,   41,    96., 

Pyat,  Felix,  48.  136. 

Rotrou,  91. 

Rousseau,  J.  J  ,  8,  n,  20,  24, 

Quesnel,  22.  25,  26, 35,  44,  46,  47,  49,  52, 

55,  59.  65,  68,  75,  80,  83, 

85,  87,  92,  94,  99,  101,  104, 

Rabelais,  8,  10,  47.  109,  in,  129,  134,  141,  146, 


250 

147,  IS1.  I6l,  164,  169,  171,  Senancourt,  49,  124. 

184,  185,  194,  214,  225,  227,  SeVigne,  Mme.  de,  14,  67,  no, 
229.  114. 

Soulary,  123,  189. 

S«  Soulie",  Frederic,  232,  236. 

Sade,  De,  159.  Souvestre,     E.,    n,    18,    24, 

Sainte-Beuve,   15,  19,  47,  95,  42,  45,   50,  61,  68,  85,  86, 

141,  144-  94,  loo,  132,  153,  162,  215, 

Sainte-Foix,  115,  119,  122.  220. 

Saint-Evremond,  38,  63,  171,  Stael,   Mme.  de,   14,   28,   71, 

212.  116,117,138,155,173,185, 

Saint-Lambert,  124.  193,  198,  206,  219. 

Saint-Prosper,  9,  133,  169.  Stendhal,  182,  229. 

Saint-Real,  9,  72,  78,  97,  232.  Suard,  36,  126. 

Saint-Surin,  Mme.  de,  33,  120.  Swetchine,  Mme.,  18,31,46, 

Salm,  Mme.  de,  51,  in,  113,  94,  181. 

182;  209. 
Sand,  George,   14,  17,  33,  34, 

39,  45,  47,  54,  62,  80,  82,  Taine,  184. 

86,  92,   93,  100,   107,   no,  Talleyrand,  105, 116, 162,  210. 

202,  215,  228,  230,232,235,  Taylor,  Baron,  127. 

237,  238.  Thierry,  E.,  7. 

Sarrasin,  160.  Thomas,  A.  L.,  67,  113. 

Sartory,    Mme.    de,   77,    104,  Thomas,  Saint,  56. 

149,  176,  195.  Tour,  Mme.  de  la,  130. 

Saurin,  77,  199,  204.  Trublet,  7,  234. 

Scuderi,  Mile,  de,  30,  54,  74,  Turgot,  22. 

185,  221. 

Second,  Alberic,  23.  "• 

Segalas,  Mme.  Anais,  27.  Vair,  G.  du,  71. 

Segoyer,  De,  107.  Valaincourt,  12. 

Segur,   10,  32,  55,   115,   141,  Varennes,   De,  99,  120,   158, 

155,  161,  197,  198.  160,  178. 

S£nac  de   Meilhan,    53,   IO2,  Vauvenargues,  21,  26,  32,  36, 

140,  144-  42,  55,  5«.  69,  77,  83,  8?, 


251 

IO6,  108,  115, 140,  145,  197,  Voltaire,   II,    18,  24,  25,  27, 

211.     .  29,  34,  37,  41,  42,  43,  45, 

Viard,  191.  46,  50,  52,   55,  57,  6l,  64, 

Vieillard,  97,  222.  68,  69,  75,  81,  84,  88,  90, 

Vieland,  99.  92,   93,  96,  100,  105,  no, 

Vigny,  Alfred  de,  47.  in,  113,  115,  122,  131,  132, 

Villefr6,  94.  133,  136,  139,  145,  152,  153, 

Villemain,  118.  155,  162,  170,  172,  180,  iSl, 

Virey,  30,  233.  184,  191,  197,  207,  211,  219, 

Voillez,  Mme.,  174.  220,  225,  229,  233,  239,  241. 


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